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.

• Meta Film
• Brain Academy
• Anna Neye Poulsen
• Sara Fanta Traore
• Claus Riis Østergaard
• Jesper Groth
• Tyler Errol Murray
• Caroline Henderson
• James L. Sampson
• Søs Sif Thiele