Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald, but when the lovers find themselves on opposite sides of a violent religious conflict in 1558 England, Ned goes to work for Princess Elizabeth. Over a turbulent half-century the love between the two seems doomed. But the real enemies are not the rival religious, but those who believe in tolerance and those who do not.
Explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.