Paris, 1789. The Bastille has been stormed and a breath of liberty blows through the streets of Paris. Françoise, a young washerwoman, and Basile, without a family or a name, discover the unique exhilaration of love and revolution. With their friends and the working-class people of Paris, they begin to realize dreams of emancipation in the newly-formed assembly where they witness, with both hope and doubt, the creation of a new political system. Their debates and the riots on the streets hold the fate of their once-sacred king and the birth of a republic. Freedom has a story.