Cora is a slave on the plantation in Georgia. An outcast among her fellow African and quickly approaching womanhood, she is desperate for freedom. So, when Caesar tells her about an underground railroad, they decide to escape North, only to be pursued by the relentless slave master. This pulsating story is about a woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage but it is also a powerful meditation on history, from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day.