Encore Saturdays, Feb. 3 - 17, 2024 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! The fictional story is based on Andrea Levy’s award-winning novel about the end of slavery in Jamaica and follows July, an indomitable, young enslaved woman who works on a sugarcane plantation with her detestable mistress, Caroline Mortimer. Their lives change with the arrival of a charming new overseer, Robert Goodwin who sets out to improve the plantation for both the enslaved workers and the mistress.