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.

• DirectorJohn Duigan
• Release16 April 1993
• Genre
  Thriller / Drama
• Duration1h 38m
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• Rate
  

  4.8
  33 reviews
• Productions

  Fine Line Features, Sargasso Productions, Laughing Kookaburra Productions