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1860, Louisiana. After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sylvie Guilbert has decided, in spite of her familya�TMs objections, to sit for a portrait. While Madame plots her last hurrah, stories that span generations a�" from the big house to out in the fields a�" of routine horrors, secrets buried as deep as the family fortune, and the tangled bonds of descendants and enslaved, come to light to reveal a true portrait of the Guilberts.