1805 (2023)

In the North, the last states take their first steps toward abolishing chattel slavery; though it will be generations before they will free the last of their slaves. For Basammer, an enslaved man on Mr. Jared Corey's Virginia plantation, that sounds close enough to freedom; and it's but a few days' march away, just across the Mason-Dixon line. He escapes with his secret wife Marfay, leaving the vainglorious Mr. Corey with none to punish (or profit from) but those that remain. The journey of Basammer and Marfay tests their love, pitting it against their morality as they battle both the laws of nature and the laws of man.