Matrix

Descendant of a long dynasty of warriors and crusaders, Marie is too rough and rebellious for palace life, and ends up being expelled from court and sent to the mudflats of England to assume the role of prioress of a run-down abbey. . Upon her arrival, she finds a bleak landscape where starvation and gossip reign. Marie longs for the comfort of the French court, and also for her secret lover, Cecily. Before long, however, he will realize that his new duties give him more power than he ever imagined, access to knowledge about medicinal plants and his own wax seal for correspondence, which will allow him to correspond confidentially with whomever he wants.