Ivory and Gold

Peacock Original Series

Paris, 1925. She arrived as a dancer. She stayed as a legend. Nobody asked what it cost her. Set in the dazzling world of 1920s Paris — the Jazz Age's apex, when American artists, writers, and performers fled to France and created an entirely new cultural moment. Marguerite Delacroix arrives in Paris at 23 from New Orleans, a dancer of extraordinary talent and a mixed-race woman navigating the specific freedoms and limitations of a city that celebrates her exoticism while rarely engaging her full humanity. She becomes the toast of the Folies Bergère and the salons of Montparnasse. She falls into the world of artists, writers, and musicians who define the era — and into the arms of Édouard, a French sculptor of aristocratic family who falls genuinely, helplessly in love with her. The series explores the romance with psychological depth, refusing both romanticization of the era's racial dynamics and the flattening of Marguerite's complexity. She is not simply a victim or simply liberated — she is a brilliant, complicated woman navigating the narrow space the world allowed her with extraordinary skill. Season 1 — L'Arrivée Marguerite arrives in Paris. The Folies Bergère. The salons. The collision with Édouard. The intoxication of a city that sees her differently than New Orleans did. Season 2 — Le Prix The cost of Paris's specific freedom. Édouard's family. The question of what Marguerite actually wants versus what Paris has decided she is. The bittersweet, honest ending.

Story added by mr95 on July 16, 2026