Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives – a roguish adventurer, a local hooker, a priest, an aging diamond miner and his deaf-mute daughter…

The first half of this film covers Napoleon’s coronation as Emperor and political manoeuvrings while the second half covers the actual battle.

Jacques Collin, alias ‘trompe-la-mort’, or Abbé Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, is an infamous French convict…