Eric Shepard has been imprisoned since birth in a body afflicted with Cerebral Palsey, unable to move or speak. He can, however, hear, see, and most importantly, think. Terry Shepard feels that having a brother who does nothing but moan softly is an inconvenience and treats him as such. During a routine hospital visit, Terry's recklessness crashes Eric in his wheelchair into another life where he picks himself up, bloodied from a fistfight in Eleventh Century England. Eric begins a journey, facing his own and his brother's life-threatening illnesses in one life and the invading Norman forces...