Tragedy ensues just as the fugitive lovers are about to cross the Mason-Dixon Line. Joe's family history is about to repeat itself. Elder organizes a posse, claiming that Joe has abducted the girl and plans to rape her. Joe is beaten by the blackmailers, but the pair manages to run away. She suggests they run away together to avoid the blackmailers and the marriage. Besides, she is engaged to another young man, Elmer. But she returns for vengeance, trapping the men one by one. The peace and quiet is soon shattered by a gang of local thugs who rape and torture her, then leave her for dead. She loves him back until she learns that he is of African descent. Jennifer (Sarah Butler), a writer, rents an isolated cabin in the country so she can work on her latest novel. As time goes by, Joe falls in love with Lizbeth. They wish to kill him, out of racism and jealousy, because the women are attracted by Joe's masculine charms. Meanwhile, Joe discovers that the bookstore where he works is a front for an extortion ring, and the town's intolerant men make his life miserable. To get revenge on white society, Joe seduces a rich young white girl Lizbeth Shannon, and plots her death. Joe's skin is so light that he is able to pass himself off as Caucasian and find work in a local bookstore. Storyline: I Spit on Your Grave (1959) In the American south, light-skinned Afro-American Joe Grant leaves Memphis and moves to a small town after his 18-year-old brother Sonny is brutally lynched for attempting to marry a white woman.
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