It is 1905 & Luis Bernardo Valenca, a thirty-seven-year-old bachelor & owner of a small shipping company, is revelling in Lisbon`s luxurious high society. But his life is turned upside down when King Dom Carlos invites him to become governor of Portugal`s smallest colony, the island of Sao Tome e Principe. Luis Bernardo is ill-prepared for the challenges of plantation life
- used to a softer urban existence, he is shocked by the conditions under which the workers labour. But with the English closing in on Sao Tome`s cocoa plantations, the island`s main means of survival, Luis Bernardo must endeavour to protect the island & its community.