影片改编于真实的故事，1994年一位记者首次将一个被错误判了通奸罪的索拉雅投石处死的详细资料公布于世。曾获奥斯卡提名的美国女演员索瑞·安达斯鲁扮演被处死者的好友，她冒着巨大的风险让世人知道自己朋友索拉雅被残害致死的真相。

Sarah Rector, an African-American girl born in Oklahoma Indian Territory in the early 1900s, believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotted, and her faith is proven right. As greedy oil sharks close in, Sarah turns to her family, friends, and some Texas wildcatters to maintain control of her oil-rich land, eventually becoming among the nation's first female African-American millionaires—at eleven years old.