PARIS 1793 - a young new republic struggling to survive

Adored by the heroes of the French Revolution, Fleur, a beautiful aristocrat, is playing a hazardous game of double deception.

Who is this lovely widow who runs the Parisian cafe Le Chat Rouge and keeps company with a python, a mysterious cross-dresser and the daring actress La Coquette? Handsome deputy Raoul de Villaret is determined to find out the truth, But as he and Fleur play a cat and mouse game of seduction, the journalist Marat is using people power for his own ends, and when Fleur's friend, Charlotte Corday, arrives in Paris, all hell breaks loose. For Raoul and Fleur, as the city plunges into chaos, falling in love is the greatest risk of all.