Leah, born into slavery and unwanted, is sold. She finds love in the arms of a slave owner's son, only to be torn away from him. There away from her beloved, Jared, in the Deep South, she gives birth to his son, whom she names after him. Her undying love for Jay and with faith in the promise that he will find her, she endures the hardship that befalls her. In the end, left all alone, Leah tells her son the truth about his birthright. Jared, now a free man, all alone and driven by hate, keeps the promise he has made to his mother on her deathbed. With the locket she has given him, he sets out in search for his father. However, in his quest, he unknowingly brings to fulfillment the circle that his parents have had started some thirty years earlier.