Augustine

As night falls a young negro slave named Esther runs through the thick Georgia woods. With her three-week-old daughter Esther runs toward the north in hopes of being free. However the runaway slave will not get to experience her freedom. She would be shot and killed by the local plantations overseer. Esthers killer also happens to be the father of her infant daughter. After the murder the overseer disappears and will not be seen for years to come. The child survives and is taken back to the plantation. She is immediately identified as a member of the Parish family the family that owns the local plantation. The childs name is revealed as Augustine. She would then be taken in and raised by the plantations owner and wife. Over the years Augustine struggles with her origin race love as well as adolescence. But after a fifteen-year absence Augustines father returns home and this will change everything.