A Captive Freedom sweeps us into a tale of the impossible love tween an aristocratic soldier and a showgirl at the turn of the century. Vivian Veasey-Hunt, Captain of Lancers, returns to London after the brutal war in Ashanti in which his controversial action has earned him enemies within the regiment. Seeking consolation, he is drawn to a beautiful brunette from the chorus of the "Lindley Girls," who have taken London by storm. Leila Duncan in a strange creature created by the impresario Lester Gilbert. Trapped between her lowly origins and her sudden elevation into the circles in which Vivian moves, Leila fiercely defied society's views on the virtues of actresses - views Vivian naturally shares. Both, though, are hiding guilty secrets, and their stormy relationship seems doomed when a soldier from Leila's past come back into her life. But they are to meet again under very different circumstances, far from the glitter of London's theatre world. Thrown together at the bloody siege of Kimberly, City of Diamonds, both have to fight their own bitter private battles while struggling for their very survival on the war-town South African veld.