SUSANNA

The year is 1658. A young woman is tried in a Batavian court as a runaway and a thief. Her ear is cut off branding her as a convict slave and she is sentenced to a lifetime of slavery. Banished to a Dutch settlement she must serve her sentence as a female slave in a remote outpost at the Cape of Good Hope consisting mostly of men. How will she adapt as a convict slave in an environment consisting mainly of local inhabitants, sex hungry officials, soldiers and sailors? Will she succumb to the Dutch practices of frutification, sexual exploitation and assimilation or will she resist? Will she ingratiate herself with those who wield power to survive or not? What will be her destiny?