12 Years a Slave

“The extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup.”

Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free Black man, is lured away by two conmen and sold into slavery on a Louisiana plantation. He is forced to work under brutal overseers, among them Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender), a man whose cruelty is matched only by his unpredictability. Over twelve years, Solomon endures the system designed to break him, holding onto the one thing slavery cannot take: the memory of who he was before.