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In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grief-stricken wife and her Creole daughter Antoinette behind. Soon Antoinette learns she must marry to claim her inheritance and sets her sights on Rochester, an Englishman eerily similar to Mason.

A hauntingly fragile presence radiates from the screen as a woman loses her grip on a world fractured by colonial cruelty. This lush, feverish period piece captures the suffocating heat and psychological isolation of a life unraveling in the Caribbean.