Cerise is fourteen years old but she looks twenty. Cerise grew up on the outskirts, but now she’s exiled to Ukraine. Cerise wears excessive amounts of makeup, but she still…

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the…