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It is the early 1850s when thirteen-year-old Ashani tribe member Berko Yaba is snatched from his home in Ghana, West Africa, and placed on a slave ship bound for Jamaica. A short time later, Berko takes a new name, Jed, and reluctantly begins a new, imprisoned life with his shrewd owner. Meanwhile, in Cupar, Scotland, Johnny McDonald is like most teenage boys in his farming community, focused on raising healthy crops and animals. But when Johnny marries Diana and begins farming his own land, things begin to go wrong.

Em 1866, numa exclusiva escola inglesa, um jovem aluno se afoga em circunstâncias misteriosas. As repercussões de sua morte se estenderão por muitas décadas, em uma saga de traição, ganância, vingança e paixão.

"Обыкновенная история" - роман русского писателя Ивана Александровича Гончарова, повествующий о взрослении и разочаровании в собственных идеалах неискоренимого, как представляется вначале, провинциального романтика - Александра Адуева.