This is the origin story of the Magna Carta that doesn't erase the women.The illegitimate daughter of King John and her stepmother the Queen Consort - both young French imports into England - are traumatised by his casual murder of their friend Matilda, and forge a plan not to kill the king, but make him just. Injustice, intrigue and treason to the past in a play within a play about the messy uncertainty of beautiful revolution.