Big Bill's Legacy continues . . . The three Vance women leave the devastation of Virginia for new life in Philadelphia. All three courageous women are searching for life after David Vance. Beth is leaving a loveless marriage and searching for the love that was denied her during her nine year marriage to David Vance. Lillian and Rebecca are leaving slavery and everything they have ever known for freedom in Philadelphia. While Lillian is blessed to find the first friendship she has ever known and Beth embarks on a promising romance, Rebecca is deluded into thinking that with her light complexion, long hair and green eyes, she can simply stop being a Negro. It is a delusion that will put her life in jeopardy.