Humility was born to be a slave. Transported from West Africa to Haiti, she is everything the Vicomte de Salace could ever wish for. She is obedient and eager to please, which makes it all the more unacceptable when Henri, his body slave, has the temerity to take her for his own. Punishment for Humility is swift at the hands of Baron Samedi, the voodoo god of Death. And when cane fires later destroy two neighbouring plantations, Humility is offered as a sacrifice to appease Papa Zaca, the god of the fields...