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The Prologue
As it begins with the woman laying down in the hospital bed with the police on her side, she hears them asking her question how she lost her arms, with this fact she realizes that she had lost her left arm. and then police asks them where is Kevin? they question her that if Kevin did this to her. she refused; after questioning her several times they had let Kevin go. He stands beside her, as he tries to distract her attention from her lost arm. she asks him what he had told the police about the accident and he tells her that he wasn't present there and neither there was any witness: so they had to let go Kevin.

The River
Dana and Kevin had moved to their own house, and they were still unpacking. As Dana was trying to arrange the books in the shelves, Kevin walks in the room complaining about how he had so many ideas to write about for Christmas and now he had none. he seems frustrated, Dana puts the book in front of him so he can get any idea by reading it. she then tries to arrange the books in the shelves, and suddenly she feels dizzy and then unconscious. Dana then finds herself on the side of the river where she sees a little red headed boy drowning, he was screaming.... she jumps in river and saves the boy as her mother was running and screaming for help. as Dana brings the boy out, his mother snatches the boy and after carefully looking at him realizes he is not breathing. Dana gives mouth to mouth resuscitation and she sees the boys chest moving. Boy's mother starts to beat Dana claiming that she had killed her son. later, she sees the guy pointing the rifle at her, she felt dizzy and then unconscious. next minute, she finds herself in the room with Kevin, she is light headed and dizzy. Kevin questions her where she was and why she is wet and muddy. she felt like it was dream and but still wasn't able to explain to it Kevin.

The Fire
Then Dana finds herself in another old bedroom at night. She finds Rufus is there, and she finds rufus few years older than she saw him the last time. Rufus was holding a flaming stick, and he has just sets fire to the curtains. Dana quickly tears the curtain down on the floor and put them outside the window. She manages to save Rufus life once again. She thought that since Rufus is safe now she will go back home but nothing happens. Dana starts talking to Rufus and discovers that this is year 1815. She figures out from Rufus accent and his fluent use of words “nigger” and “master” that she is in the Old South in Maryland on the Weylin Plantation. Tom Weylin is Rufus’s father and is the same man who pointed the gun at Dana near river. Rufus then showed his scars which he got after his father had beaten him. Rufus was recently beaten up by his father because he wished to have a horse that was then sold to another man. And Rufus set the fire to house so he can take revenge from his father for beating him. Dana starts gather around some piece of information together. She remembers that the little kid Rufus Weylin is her several times great great grandfather, but and is still alive in the memory of her family bible that his daughter kept with family records in it. Dana then ask Rufus if he knows Alice Greenwood and he said he knows her. In the bible Dana remembers that “Alice,” is the name of Rufus’s wife. Dana wonders how Rufus will  end up marrying a black girl. She now believes that she and Rufus are linked to each other cause of kinship. Now, Dana have a question that if she hadn’t saved Rufus what would have happened to her and her family. Rufus then also explains her that he saw before she appeared in his room to save him from fire he set on curtains. Rufus said he saw her with Kevin having food in her kitchen. Dana doesn’t worry about how Rufus saw her in future she wanted to get out of Weylin house before tom Weylin sees her there. She knew that whatever makes her to protect Rufus doesn’t care about her protection at all. Dana gets the directions to Alive and her mother’s house, and walking alone in pre- civil war south scares Dana to death, with the fact that she doesn’t have anything to prove that she is a free black woman and not a slave. As soon as Dana reaches near the cabin, she tried to hide from the men approaching towards the cabin She watches that a black man is being dragged out of the cabin by those men, and then they start beating him and drag him behind the horse just because he have no pass. The men with horses rip the blanket off a woman, and then she is naked underneath. They completely ignore the woman’s little girl, that happens to be Alice. As soon as the men with horses leave, Dana appears in front of them. Alice and Dana helped Alice’s mother move into their cabin. Alice’s family thought that Dana is a runaway slave and then they agreed to hide her in their house until morning. Dana figures out that the black man was Alice’s father and he is Tom Weylin’s slave and is not allowed to visit his wife. Dana was then asked by Alice’s mother to go get the blanket from the ground outside. When Dana goes out she was then kicked by the man on the horse who just came back to rape Alice’s mother. The man then beats Dana and rips her clothes off, Dana manages to hit him with the limb near her. Dana then comes back home and sees that Kevin gave her a blade to protect her, and she tells Kevin to keep coming back home since they both need to be there for each other.