James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excellent match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife Mary across the border his true character emerges - he sells her into slavery. James and Elizabeth must go to Virginia to rescue their daughter.

• CanWest Global Communications
• Dorothea G. Petrie Productions
• Louis Gossett Jr.
• Kate Nelligan
• Ruby Dee
• Peter Outerbridge
• Michael Jai White
• Rachael Crawford
• Don Francks
• Aron Tager