Damon knows he must be whipped by his master or face the police. Damon is late one too many times and another young slave is ordered to imprison him.
By 2015, after six years of the economic decline in the U.S., indebted young men are sold off as 'indentured servants.' If they break the terms of their contract, these legal slaves, like 21-year-old Damon, can be whipped by their owners.
