Adrian has been trained as a slave since the day he was taken from his family at the age of six. In his seventeenth year he is finally sold to a wealthy family for which he will work for the rest of his life. However, the family that bought him is giving Adrian to their only son as a birthday present. The boy's new master happens to be a little more compassionate and understanding, and seeks more to pull Adrian out of his eleven years of inhumane abuse rather than use him as a simple servant.