The story of a former slave’s prophecy that his descendants would one day rise above the manacles of slavery to the pinnacle of society. Solomon Chambers was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1940. His parents and his uncle moved to Michigan from Mississippi years earlier, hoping to avoid the racism of their home state. Solomon defies the odds of poverty and discrimination and eventually becomes a lawyer, and when his uncle is murdered in Mississippi he serves as a witness for the prosecution-- and has his first brush with the reality of racism. Solomon becomes an attorney, then senator, and the eventually becomes president of the United States of America in the year 2008.