Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, Julilly only has her dream of freedom left. Every day she spends huddled in the trader’s cart travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend Liza may reach someday. So when workers from the «underground railway» offer to help the two girls, they are ready. But the slave catchers and their dogs will soon be after them…