Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a tale of profound suffering, inequality and the desperate fight for survival that characterized the lives of enslaved African American people in the US. Faced with a financial crisis, Kentucky farmer Arthur Shelby decides to sell two of his slaves: an older man named Tom and a child, Harry. Two parallel journeys follow, as Harry’s mother flees the plantation to protect her son, while Tom’s life is transformed by an unexpected friendship with a young white girl.