"Londinium, Britannia, A.D. 211. A city of slum tenements and sumptuous villas, of orgy queens, drag queens, and drama queens. A city where the currency is often sex, where children go to work at age five, where marriage is a career move. In this bustling city lives Zuleika, the feisty, precocious daughter of Sudanese immigrants-made-good.
Married off at eleven to a rich Roman who is three times her age and usually away on business, Zuleika drifts about his beautiful villa, bored, or sneaks out to see her old friends. …
