Set amidst the social upheaval and political revolution of late C16th France, our story revolves around the shocking assassination of the country’s reigning monarch - King Louis 16th!

Despite his enforced detention in the forbidding Bastille Fortress, the preparations for Louis's Official 40th Birthday Party are almost complete, when the King's body is found lying, poisoned, across his dressing room table, by the party's host and organiser, Cardinal Richelieu. 
                    Or so it first seems!
However, as Richelieu then rushes to raise the alarm, he is amazed to encounter a second, 'living and breathing' Louis, strolling around the castle courtyard, seemingly without a care in the world.

A brief examination by the Cardinal reveals that the two men are in fact identical in almost every respect, and, unfortunately, he is unable to tell them apart.

With the future of France at stake, Richelieu knows he must get to the bottom of this mystery as quickly as possible, if he is to avert a potential disaster, and save the country from ruin.