1 July 1789, Paris Ñ Two weeks before the Revolution:
France is undergoing a political upheaval unlike anything it has known before. Louis XVI is using savage mercenary forces and food blockages, to bring the people to heel. The country is a powder keg, and Paris is the fuse. In the midst of the bloody chaos, shadowy peopleÑ including the sinister and brutal chief of the Paris policeÑdiscover that a young Parisian laundress, Mich�le Duvallier, is in possession of the proof of a deadly, ancient secret that could shake FranceÕs monarchy to its core É
September 1654, Burgundy Ñ 135 years before the Revolution:
A good-natured young man, an orphan, is mysteriously imprisoned with grotesque instructions to conceal his identity in such as way as to ensure he is to be forgotten for all time É