The Price of Sugar’ is the screen adaptation of Cynthia McLeod’s successful novel of the same name. It tells the story of two half-sisters in eighteenth-century Suriname, the white Sarith and her personal slave Mini-Mini. While Sarith grows embittered by the harsh life in the colony, Mini-Mini gets a chance at happiness. Can she and will she dare to grab that chance – , at the expense of her mistress and half-sister?