Inspired by the book ?Black Beauty? by Anna Sewell. After her father dies in a horse riding accident, a displaced city girl named Cheryl is sent to live with a foster family on a large farm in the country where the gruff patriarch (Dean Stockwell) takes her in as one of his own. It's here that Cheryl meets the farm's magnificent horse named after the famous steed from her favourite book. With the help of the family's free-spirited son, Cheryl learns to face her fear of horses and race once again.