The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Keywords: 1860s , 1870s , american-civil-war , antebellum-south , atlanta , based-on-novel-or-book , businesswoman , casualty-of-war , civil-war , loss-of-loved-one , lost-cause , marriage-crisis , plantation , powerful , pro-slavery , racist-stereotype , reconstruction-era , revisionist-history , romance , second-marriage , slavery , typhus , widow , amused , candid