From acclaimed producer Barbara de Fina (Goodfellas, Casino) comes the true story of May 15th, 1848, when protesters in Paris finally pushed the French political establishment to let them have a popular vote to elect their ruler, only to see the outcome of their revolution backfire and turn against their own interests when the demagogue Louis- Napolon Bonaparte seized the reins of power through the ballot box and turned France into a dictatorship.