From the writers of Miss Saigon and Les Miserables, a powerful musical based on a stranger-than-fiction tale from French folklore. A passionate tale of love and betrayal, desertion and desire unfolds in the midst of the peasant community in the French village of Artigat. In the shadow of the revolution a young wife welcomes back her husband lost without trace years before. With the return of Martin Guerre, the future of the village is secure, its Catholic faith protected from the threatening Protestant cloud that gathers overhead. But Martin is not all that he seems. An extraordinary case of identity theft culminates in an emotional courtroom drama. A story of deception, dishonour and revenge, or one of romance, honour and the need to belong?