[He would become Freddy""s first victim, forced back into his own past to relive his traumatic upbringing.After the vision, she turned accusingly toward her uncle - remembering how she almost drowned because of him, and hen asserted: "He was down there.Romance develops with the sisters on either side in the idyllic setting of the South.Eldest boy Phil Stoneman falls for the elder Cameron daughter, Margaret -- they walk together "by way of Love Valley"Benjamin Cameron becomes enchanted with Phil""s sister, he beautiful Elsie, after he sees a daguerrotype picture of her and idealizes her: "He finds the ideal of his dreams in the picture of Elsie Stoneman, his friend""s sister, whom he has never seen"In the slave quarters, the slaves are given a two-hour interval for dinner, during their working day from six till six.A so-called ""director""s cut"" version of the film, threatened with an NC-17 rating when submitted to the MPAA ratings board in 1993 prior to a re-release in 1994, held up the film""s re-release for many months.Plot SynopsisUnder the credits in the opening scene set in the late 1880s, a lone, wandering rider (with a pistol visible in his right holster) comes from a trail on the left, descending into a majestic valley rimmed by mountains.