这部电影设定在18世纪的英格兰,并“灵感来源”于真实事件,是一部关于宗教领袖安·李(Ann Lee)的“史诗寓言”,安·李是谢克教运动的创始人,且被她的追随者宣称为“女性基督”。
To avoid a taxi war, city officials blame a gang bombing on driver Joe Benton's wife Anna and put her on a ship to deport her. The mayor is speaker at a boxers' banquet where Joe pleads for them to go with him to the wharf and rescue Anna (about to deliver their baby) from the ship.