The Terror has begun.
The ruthless spy master Chauvelin is determined to stop the rescuers by fair means or foul, and, desperately outnumbered,.
They leave no trace behind them except a note from the \'Scarlet Pimpernel\'.
But rumours whisper of a league of young English gentleman of unparalleled daring who are risking their lives to spirit aristocrats across the Channel.
There is no escape.
They are trapped in the capital.
Each day scores of the French nobility feed the guillotine.
Paris, 1792.
The Terror has begun