Isaac is a struggling but gifted painter in pre-revolutionary France. With pressing financial troubles and a strong-minded fiancee, he takes a temporary job as a naval painter on a ship delivering supplies to the New World. But he soon learns that the boat is not on a short cruise, but on a long, dangerous expedition led by Captain John the Pillager, a successful and charismatic pirate possessed with a madness to rival Melville's Ahab. This is also the story of Isaac's finance, Alice. Left behind in Paris, to fend for herself, she must also fend off the advances of her aristocratic employer.
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