BELLE is motivated by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral. Produced with his wife and her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield, Belle's lineage affords her certain rights, nevertheless the coloring of her skin prevents her from participating in the customs of her social standing. Left to wonder whether she will find love, Belle drops for an idealistic young vicar's son bent change who, as Lord Chief Justice, contours the function of Lord Mansfield with her help to stop captivity in England