A former heiress is sold into slavery and falls for her master while the American Civil War rages around them - but marauding Union troops threaten their happiness just as love begins to blossom. Romantic period drama, starring Clark Gable, Sidney Poitier, Yvonne DeCarlo and Rex Reason.

Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.