Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave, Samuel Woodward, and his family escape from the Monroe Plantation near Richmond, Virginia. A secret network of ordinary people known as the Underground Railroad guides the family on their journey north to Canada. Over 100 years earlier, in 1748, Captain John Newton is about to set off across the sea with a ship full of slaves. Both men are having struggles of faith...

With the country on the brink of Civil War, the struggle for freedom is more dangerous than ever.

It follows a group of slaves who plan a daring escape from a Georgia plantation to cross 600 miles to freedom.