An ambitious thieving noble and his men travel through the hills of Meath in the summer of 1348, using the advantage of the plague which has ravaged society to buy up large swathes of property and swindle local populations. They came upon Nobber, a tiny town whose only living inhabitants seem to be an egotistical bureaucrat, his volatile wife, a naked blacksmith, and a beautiful Gaelic hostage. A deadly stand-off emerges between these two parties.