In 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sethe an ex-slave, and daughter, Denver, had been living with Baby Suggs. Baby Suggs sank in depression by the loss of all her children and being an ex- slave, she then died right after. Sethe’s sons Howard and Burglar ran away from her, because they thought their dead sisters ghost’s was around the house. Sethe had four children with her husband, Halle, he was the chosen one that Sethe fell in love with. Paul D, whom Seth has not seen returned since the day they worked in Sweet Home plantation approximately twenty year earlier. This story the unfolds in two planes the past and the present. Sethe was born in the south with a African mother who never knew. She was sold to the Garners where she meet the other slaves
