A group of slaves plan a daring 600-mile escape from a Georgia plantation. Along the way, they are aided by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the Underground Railroad as they attempt to evade the people charged with bringing them back, dead or alive.

描述柯拉蘭多在南北戰爭前的南方爭取自由。逃離喬治亞的農場後，柯拉發現傳說的地下鐵道不僅是隱喻，而是在南方土地下真實的鐵道。根據同名小說改編而成，該著作同時榮獲普立茲獎。