When the controversial northern clergyman, Jess Dalton, accepts a pastorate in Washington, D.C., he and his young bride Kerry are plunged into a maelstrom of deceit and intrigue. Jess contends openly for the rights of the enslaved and oppressed, unaware that his enemiesare plotting to destroy him.
His beloved Kerry, rejected and scorned by Washington society because of her Irish roots, takes up her husband's banner and begins her own struggle to educate the slave children of Washington. Too late she relizes that her stand for God's truth may well cost her her life...