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Morgan Adams (Davis) is the daughter
of a pirate who has followed in her father's footsteps. When he dies, he passes
along his ship, a crew of bandits, and one third of a treasure map, which
happens to be tattooed on his skull. Morgan is eager to search out the rest of
the map and retrieve the riches, but the fragment she holds is in Latin. Morgan
then buys a well-educated slave, William Shaw (Matthew Modine), who can read the
ancient language and already has a taste for the criminal life. However, Morgan
and William are not long into their search when they discover that someone else
is following the same trail for the rest of the treasure map: Dawg Brown (Frank
Langella), Morgan's black-hearted uncle. As Morgan and Dawg battle each other
over the fragments of the map, a British journalist (Maury Chaykin) covers their
feud for the penny press.
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