Set in 1925, it revolves around 17-year-old Lucy (Ellie Bamber), a beautiful young upper-class Englishwoman sent to live on her uncle’s sugar plantation in colonial Mauritius. There she meets Krishna (Mehdi Dehbi), a local man of Indian heritage employed by her uncle in the fields. In a Mr Darcy-style moment early on, Lucy spies Krishna stripped to the waist and splashing about in a waterfall. Lucy has arrived at Ambleside, the plantation house owned by her uncle George (Rupert Penry-Jones) after the death of her mother. It’s now nearly a century after the abolition of slavery, but uncle George has not removed the torture instruments from his garden, where shackles still hang from a post.