A long journey

In September 1793, the Jacobins took over France and their almost year-long rivalry for power with the Girondists sparked a new wave of executions. Nearly 20,000 people ended up under the guillotine. Hermína de Marigny could not have chosen a worse time to return to her native country. On the recommendation of her mother's lawyer, she sets off for Paris to save at least the remains of the family fortune. But after five years away from France, he comes to the country, that he no longer recognizes, and soon finds out that risk, he's undergoing, is too big...