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Set in the US Virgin Islands from 1916 to the 1970s this is Botha famiky stiry and a metaphor for the way in which the Virgin Islands enters the modern era. A wealthy sea captain goes down with his ship, leaving very little to his wife Antoinette and two beautiful young daughters, Eeona and Anette. He also leaves an illegitimate son, interestingly named Jacob Esau Mackenzie. As the three children grow and struggle with family secrets, societal restraints and the alluring and potentially destruct
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