Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space from her loving home in 1970s California to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it.
General Note
"Based on the novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler copyright 1979" -- colophon
Content Note
Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope -- Epilogue.