1792, England. The Kellaway family moves from the provinces to London, the city of greatness and vice. The British capital is uneasy. France is in revolt across the Channel. All unreliable people and sympathizers with the French revolutionaries are placed under suspicion - whoever is not for the king is against God. Trouble also comes to the Kellaway family. Thomas Kellaway's daughter, Maisie, becomes a victim of the lust of the son of the circus owner and the house where they live. Thomas himself, by refusing to sign the declaration of devotion to the king, turns society against himself. The only one who was not afraid to come to the rescue is William Blake, a poet, freethinker, artist, mystic, who knows how to discern in a person what is hidden under his temporary shell. Another masterpiece of prose from the author who gave the world “The Girl with a Pearl Earring.”