Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant.
As Lavinia is slowly accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles an opiu.
Placed with the slaves in the Kitchen House under the care of Belle, the master\'s illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her new adopted family, even though she is forever set apart from them by her white skin.
Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant