Though Andre-Louis Moreau was educated as a simple lawyer, the murder of his friend in cold blood by the villainous Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr force him to take more drastic action. When no justice is found in the courts, and he is told that nobles do not care to interfere with the Marquis' business, Moreau sparks the powder keg that is the French peoples' growing hatred of the nobility — fanning the flames of revolution.