Womanizer, Antoine Moore believed that women were only good for one thing…lying on their backs. However, the professional bachelor s wild exotic journeys are brought to a halt, when one of his former flings, leaves their daughter, Angel on his door step.

Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and sacrifice. Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood, where the Coatses operate a tailor’s shop and laundry, is supposed to be a “promised land” for former slaves but is effectively a frontier town, gritty and dangerous, with no laws protecting black people.