1767–1770, coal mines of Scotland, ports of London, tobacco plantations of America. A simple miner Macash, nicknamed Mac, and aristocrat Lizzie Hallim. What could they have in common? Nevertheless, they constantly collide on the path of life, alternately saving each other from mortal dangers, getting closer, falling in love and eventually together finding the longed-for freedom, to which they followed different paths. Sentenced to a life of misery in the Scottish coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: beautiful high-born Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell.

In 1766, from the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship headed for the American colonies to a sprawling Virginia plantation, two restless young people, separated by politics and position, are bound by their search for a place called freedom....