Octoroon tells the story of a blind European Black African lady in the late 1800s. Sarah is a strong-willed lady of love and pride, and her faithful valet, Dimas, is a Caucasian gentleman from London, England. Sarah struggles not only to stay alive but to retain her dignity on the Old Maggie passenger ship, a blithely uncaring natural environment that envelops Sarah and Dimas. Unearthed emotional undercurrents and churning intensity are unleashed in her journey of struggling to maintain the appearance of the EUROPEAN society, they've left VICTORIAN times to be with her husband Jacob Halligan, a preacher in Port Chalmers, New Zealand