Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for son many years untel she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless ans whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.