The story, set shortly after the Civil War, revolves around Sethe, a former slave living on the outskirts of Cincinnati. When the film begins, an angry poltergeist is terrorizing Sethe and her three children. After Sethe temporarily soothes the angry spirit, her two sons run away from home, never to return.
Ten years later, Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), who by this time lives alone with her daughter Denver (Kimberly Elise), runs into Paul D. (Danny Glover), an old friend from Sweet Home, the plantation Sethe escaped from many years earlier. Paul D. then proposes to Sethe that he should stay and they could "build a life."

Beloved is a 1998 film based on Toni Morrison's eponymous Pulitzer-Prize-winning 1987 novel. It was directed by Jonathan Demme, and was produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions. The film stars Winfrey and Danny Glover.