"The most ordered city in the Caribbean fell in four hours."
A historical epic dramatizing the earthquake and tsunami that destroyed Port Royal in 1692 — the most notorious pirate city in the world — through five interwoven perspectives. Each episode covers the same four-hour window from a different character's point of view: a pirate hiding from a warrant, a Jamaican slave who sees the signs before anyone else, a corrupt judge who has profited from the pirates, a young navy ensign on his first posting, and a brothel madam who has run Port Royal's true social network for fifteen years. Together they paint a portrait of a city in the final hours of its particular, terrible glory.
