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Inspired by true events. In 1932, a media frenzy ensues when devastating secrets are exhumed after the remains of Danielle, a young, enslaved songstress, are discovered in the wall of an abandoned mansion on the Soileau Plantation. Through her younger sister, who returns to the English and French-speaking parish to identify the body, newspaper reporters learn the nature of Danielle's life on and off the sugar plantation as a rented slave and former child companion of the master's daughter. Known for her proficiency in herbal remedies, beauty, and likeness on the Soileau & Sons rum and sugar product art, Danielle is flawed, yet favored by her lascivious master, Demetre Soileau, and despised by his wife, Etiennette.Exposed to the society of Louisiana Creoles of color and free Blacks, regarded as the gens libre de couleur, Danielle catches the tender eye of a free mariner and business owner, Alphonse Santee, who is instrumental in her thirst for freedom, love, and the struggle to