A young boy in post-WWII Connecticut recounts the transformative summer of 1948, shaped by the absence of his father killed in the Pacific and the awakening brought by formative events.
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In 1453 France, a mother offers herself to the lord to spare her teenage daughter from the jus primae noctis on her wedding night.
A naturally submissive English immigrant working as a saloon girl in America falls under the influence of a wealthy but cruel banker.
In 1845, Tracey, the only female slave trader in her town, oversees a shipment of slaves bound for America, navigating a male-dominated trade with her father's reputation and her beauty.