As a “free colored” woman, Anna Elizabeth Heegaard is wealthy and owns her own slaves when she begins a love affair with the Danish colony’s governor-general Peter von Scholten. During communal feasts, they discuss social reforms while a slave boy hangs above the table and cools the diners with a feather. And in the shadows, whispers begin of a slave revolt.

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Frederikke AspöckDirector

Anna Neye PoulsenAnna

Sara Fanta TraorePetrine

Claus Riis ØstergaardPeter Von Scholten

Jesper GrothAdmiral Irminger