A true tale of how a sunken soufflé came to reveal a festering quagmire of corruption and bigotry in genteel Bath in 1831. What starts out as a culinary catastrophe quickly becomes a matter of life and death.

Being the story of how bachelor extraordinaire Belle Nash and his Caribbean ‘cousin’ Pablo Fanque – supported by a group of fine ladies – established the Circus Royal in Bath in the face of opposition from the vile bigot Lord Servitude.