Morality and mercy are easy concepts to follow when there are no risks involved. But it will always come a day when it's not easy. When a person must choose; to die honorably like a hero, or disgrace.
Elodie La Roche - a survivor of the first French Revolution - has had some bizarre things happen to her since 1789 and now she finds herself sent as a heroine to Haiti to 'keep the colony in line'.