Sylvia is a simple white girl living on her father’s plantation in the south during slavery. She decides that she wants a something to play with, instead of a doll she picks out David, a slave also living on the plantation. Over the years of their friendship they create a strong bond that eventually turns into love. Sylvia teaches David how to read and then tells him she loves him. He tries to explain to Sylvia that he is her property and that they cannot love each other. Sylvia will not accept this. Their lives change the say she shares wit her father that she is pregnant and David is the father and that she loves him. Her father is ashamed of the situation. He beats David and forces Sylvia to kill him. She does and is then banished from the plantation. Throughout the performance we see Sylvia at different stages of her life with and without David. He comes in and out of her memories, as does the child that she never had. It is a difficult timeless story of love and race, but these two people show us that love is always possible.
