It's 1097 and David and Pierre have responded to the call of the Pope to rescue Jerusalem from the infidels. They and their mother's ward, Constance, make their way to the Levant. Only two of them return.

Forty-nine years later Pascal and Gallien set off to Jerusalem on the second crusade via Spain with a letter and a belief that there is possibly a family member in Jerusalem. However, what they find there is not what they were expecting.