GALLIMARD I

"- What do you know about beauty, Antoinette? He turned to me, hanging on my answer. - Not much. But I can recognize her when she is there. - Well, every time I see her, she hurts me. When I see your face, for example, something in me seems to be shaken." Island of Jamaica, 1831. Antoinette , a Creole from a good family, falls in love with Edward, an Englishman as impenetrable as he is fascinating.