Set in the fifteenth century amid the Hundred Years' War over France's throne, the tale follows Montmorency, a noble heir who devotes himself to magic and alchemy at a royal knight academy. When France suffers the devastating loss at Agincourt, the academy is shut down. Stripped of all and now a fugitive, Montmorency meets an enigmatic village maiden called Jehanne, whose presence promises both danger and hope in the shattered kingdom in the war‑torn countryside for fragile hope.