When slavery is for life, your only freedom is in your own mind. A young man is kidnapped from his own country and sold into slavery. While he fights to retain his sense of self, his sympathetic owner struggles with the role he inherited, but hates. Their relationship, as they try to understand each other, is marked by conflict, misunderstandings, and reconciliations.

Cor, once on the path to marriage and eventual inheritance of his father’s business, is now the property of a wealthy landowner and politician. Alcot needed a secretary, but something about the newly enslaved, still defiant man also spoke to his own painful past. Cor can’t understand his generous but strangely contradictory master. Alcot can’t find a way to help Cor adapt to the loss of his freedom. Bound together by law and custom, they must work through the pain that each of them brings to the other.