Childhood friends Tommy and Tuppence meet in London after having served in World War I. Recently demobed, short of money, and with no job prospects, they decide to become adventurers for hire. Soon, they are employed by the British Government to locate a secret treaty signed before the war.
A group of veteran marines steal a shipment of weapons from the military only to find a cold war era robot that hunts them down, determined to complete it's mission.
When talking about Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette, what immediately comes to mind are lace, tall wigs, flamboyant clothes and colours, Versailles, or… the guillotine. Here, between these two extremes, exists a middle ground, a period of time seldom explored: the few months when the last king and queen of France were imprisoned, with their two young children, in a black...