Inspired by the remarkable life of a mixed-race aristocratic woman in 18th-century England, this beautifully crafted drama follows a young heiress caught between privilege and prejudice as she struggles to find her place in a society that refuses to see her as an equal. While navigating the rigid marriage market, she becomes entangled in a landmark legal battle that challenges the morality of the British slave trade, forcing her family to confront impossible choices between wealth, justice, and humanity
Amma Asante’s powerful, moving and gently subversive romantic melodrama is a finely wrought tale of a woman out of time, a film that plays eloquently upon the heartstrings as it…