

Born into one world, destined for another.
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.

Marcel Ste. Marie

Philippe Ferronaire

Cecile Ste. Marie

Dolly Rose

Jean-Jacques

Elsie Claviere

Suzette Lermontant

Juliet Mercier

Older Marcel

Lola Dede

Rudolphe Lermontant

Daguerreotypist Picard