An American volunteer teaching in a school in Africa must save one of his students, a 14 year old girl from religious slavery.

Half siblings with the same father are called to his home to be informed that he is terminally ill. His dying wish is that all his family stay under the same roof for one week, however tensions mount and conflicts arise as the week progresses.

A period drama set in the time of Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire in the early 1300s, and against the backdrop of the intra-African slave trade. The prince of a small kingdom makes potentially fatal decisions by stealing a poor man's bride-to-be and by forming an alliance with Mansa Musa, whose intentions may serve his own interests, but not those of the prince and his people

Mr. Bartels had an accident and his mistress dies instantly but her daughter survives. On his dying bed he made his wife promise to take care of Anita and their child (Princess) like her own.