Tony Martone

Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the French political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.

As the industrial revolution unfolds, France is muzzled by a government under ecclesiastical influence. Poet Charles Baudelaire's iconoclastic art soon finds himself in the crosshairs of a hostile magistrate.