All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Dwain Murphy, ranked

In 1761, eleven-year-old Aminata Diallo is abducted and taken captive from her village in West Africa by a Dutch trading company. She meets another boy from her region, Chekura, who is working for the slavers but reveals he was sold into slavery by his uncle. She and Chekura are transported by ship to be sold into slavery in South Carolina, where the two are separated and she is forced to work on an indigo plantation.

The story follows brothers Francis and Michael from a single-parent family who are struggling to imagine a better life for themselves in their getaway spot of Rogue Valley. Francis, who hopes of becoming a music artist in the hip-hop scene, tries to keep his brother out of trouble by bringing him along to his friends’ hang out at the barbershop while their Trinidadian mother is working multiple shifts to make ends meet. However, when tragedy strikes and a police crackdown ensues, the boys’ hopes and dreams may be dashed by reality.