Sophia, an American Muslim teenager whose father is Arab and whose mother is an American convert, is a high school sophomore who’s on the verge of getting her driver’s permit. 

During a bike ride with her family near Lawrence, Kansas, anxiety-ridden Sophia falls into a river and is washed downstream. She emerges in 1857 – smack in the middle of Bleeding Kansas. Sophia is aghast to find that slavery is going on in her adopted community, and she begins to fight for the freedom of the slaves she knows. A local boy captures Sophia’s heart, but when he proposes marriage, Sophia is torn about marrying outside her faith. An old Gambian slave, who is a closet Muslim, helps her work out her fears, and this causes an exciting, dangerous and unexpected turn of events.