Ann Thomas is an attractive lawyer and an African American woman. She has inherited a remote farm outside of Atlanta once owned by her grandmother, a former slave.

Unknowingly to her, her grandmother was once in a romantic relationship with a well-to-do African man back in the year 1890. But the romance went sour when Ann's grandmother decided to marry someone else. Things were quiet, and through the years the jilted African man had not forgotten Ann's grandmother.

Nearly two hundred years later and in current times, he sees Ann's picture in a newspaper outlining 'outstanding lawyers' and he confuses Ann with her grandmother!

Suddenly, he wants her back and he is coming after her, two hundred years later with determination to win her again, and this time he would let nothing stand in his way!