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.

• Fine Line Features
• Sargasso Productions
• Karina Lombard
• Nathaniel Parker
• Rachel Ward
• Michael York
• Martine Beswick
• Claudia Robinson
• Paul Campbell
• Naomi Watts