In the 18th Century, A slave, never given a last name, Marcellus is freed. But he has hasn't forgiven them for the years of dehumanizing and unpaid and unthanked service, but now he's freed he makes the most of life, but only for a year, when he realises his men are popping up, seemingly trying to kill him, but he tries to ignores them, but than they take his mother, and he goes back to kill them and save her
