The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

備受推崇的知名女作家法朗妮卡（珍奈兒夢妮 飾）原本過着成功人士的美好生活，然而一場精心設計的佈局，卻令她陷入極度可怖的境況……為求保命，她必須與時間競賽，把握時機，拆解眼前滿佈謎霧的心寒詭秘！

This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born free man who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a free man. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.