When young Titas awakens to find a stranger wandering into his home his world is turned into something akin to the grand stories his mother tells.

Within days Titas finds himself battling for his life but he and his family are not the only ones in danger.

Far to the northwest an army encampment is ambushed.

In the desperate struggle that ensues the fates of three soldiers and Titas are entwined in a great war for survival and freedom.