一位单身母亲逃离黑暗的过去，来到一座小镇。当她开始新生活时，她遇到了一位寻求救赎的歹徒。

　　In late nineteenth-century America, Rising Free portrays the story of a young woman living in the aftermath of racial prejudice. Surrounded by danger of being sold and further stripped of freedom, she discovers hope through a gracious family and learns forgiveness and overwhelming mercy from her own transformation.