Anne de Bohun, living in safety with her son in Brugges, receives a message from King Edward IV that he is in danger and struggles to reconcile her love for Edward and her duty to protect her child and inheritance.
Enjoying her success as a merchant, exiled fifteenth-century single mother Anne incites the wrath of chauvinist local merchants, a situation that threatens to reveal her son's identity as the illegitimate son of the king.