Portail des médiathèques du réseau Paris-Saclay

On the day that Jacob agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens'life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress Florens has never blended into the background and now at the age of eight she is taken from her family to begin a new life. She ends up part of Jacob's household, along with his wife Rebekka, Lina their Native American servant and the enigmatic Sorrow, who was rescued from a shipwreck.