The life of Mrs. Desbassayns is exceptional in more than one way in the history of slavery on the island of Réunion. Married at the age of 15 to the forty-year-old Henri-Paulin Panon Desbassayns, this young Creole woman named Hombeline Gonneau immediately embarked on an extraordinary journey. She found herself, in fact, at the head of the most powerful landowning family...
as Narrator (voice)
as Madame Desbassayns
as Henri Paulin Panon Desbassayns
as Young Madame Debassayns
as Slave Neptune
as Julien Gonneau Montbrun (father)
as Marie-Thérèse L. des Sablons (mother)
as Abbé Macquet
as Cavalier Desbassayns
as Housing Manager
as Charles Desbassayns
as Joseph Desbassayns
as "Montbrun" Desbassayns
as Julien Augustin Desbassayns
as Chemist Wetzell
as Servant Marie-Barbe
as Slave Honorine
as Nénène Madeline
as Young Nénène Madeline
