Based on a true story

The true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his aristocratic heritage for the freedom of life on the river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society with his long-time friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. A master of Shakespeare, and of the shotgun that provides Savannahs markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. As an elderly man, Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legend of Ward Allen down to the next generation.