form, this is a story of a biracial girl who is born a product of a west african slave woman named maria belle british naval officer, captain sir john lindsay of the when he finds her mother aboard a captured spanish slave ship, there is a union and dido belle is born of this union. at the age of 6, she is adopted into her father's family, so his uncle's family, who are one of the wealthiest families in engl england. her father is the lord chief justice. next to the king he is the most powerful man in england and he and his wife together choose to raise this biracial girl as a lady, an aristoccat, high-class english woman. it's a love story, it's a romantic love story, and it's based on a true story. it is a sweeping love story about how she comes to meet the man she will eventually marry. but it's also a paternal love story. a love story between father and daughter and how this adoptive father, whose actually her great uncle, makes the choice at a time when it was unheard of, to love this biracial child. and, underneath, you know, it's a story that i created to have some hefty themes. so, it'