Under These Same Stars: The Celadon Affair (2009)

Celadon, a mixed blood (Metis) hunter, urges Marianne a Native slave, to flee Ste. Genevieve with him. She refuses. When Celadon takes another slave instead, tragedy ensues: a manhunt begins, arrests are made, and witnesses interrogated. Celadon cannot be found, but neither can he forget Marianne. Will he free her? Based on a true French Colonial story from 1773.