The story is being told by Edgar Robert, a slave who was traded to pay off a family debt at the age of 9. Being a caretaker of the East Wing and its garden and many other chores alone, having little hope because of his abusive and hateful owner Mr. Zlebra and his friends, for entertainment purposes. Enduring a lifetime of his arrogant evils toward his slaves and their families, if they did something wrong, having to watch them be tortured, around that seven-mile "happy track ' taking all the hope and laughter from his heart until Kendrick Zlebra, the son of Mr. Zlebra brought home Ms. Rose, his wife and a speck of hope turned to a trail of life to a broken-hearted soul who thought it was impossible until she gave him a hug and kiss, and filled his dry well with tears of forgotten joy.