Welcome To The Edge

As a ten-year old slave, Theo Tanner escapes to the North. On the way, he saves a small white girl from drowning, and receives help from her parents. In the North, he gets a good education. After the Civil War, he returns to the South trying to find any family members who might have survived. He marries and settles down in East Texas, sharecropping for Will Grant, an enigmatic, mean-spirited white man who hates blacks. Grant owns a large but rundown estate. The only reason he hires Theo is because he is too lazy to work the land himself. Violent confrontations characterize the relationship between these two men and will finally end in tragedy.

Through strength, courage and hard work, Theo and his family prosper and are able to help other people, both black and white struggling in these hard, bitter times. Success is not without its price, and he finally attracts the attention of the local Ku Klux Klan. He must find a way to triumph over this formidable force.