Beschreibung:
It is 1793 in Francethe year of the guillotine. Already, Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaffold, and terror reigns. Ideals topple in the face of political necessity, alliances founder, and intrigue is a way of life. The architects of the RevolutionMarat, Danton, and Robespierrehave set up an embryo parliament called the Convention, designed to stem social chaos. As Republican troops engage in bloody battle with counter-revolutionaries, a peasant woman strives simply to protect her three children. As these characters battle for their own future, the future of a large part of the world can be seen to sway in the balance.