Levi, a slave considered to be a very valuable asset during his time, is chained and sold, being taken away from his wife and children to his new home on a new plantation. His new master, Quincy Jackson, plan is to use Levi as a stud to make plenty of babies. Levi is give his new master's last name and forced into adultery. Generations later, a descendant of Levi, Alex Jackson, a married man with children finds himself living in a few situations that causes him to realize that the only difference between him and his ancestor is that Levi was forced to do what he is willing to do.
—Brian Harris