Based on a true story...

Byzantium 1054: The Seljuk Sultan prepares to fall on the Christian frontier ...

Guy d'Agiles, penniless Frankish mercenary in Constantinople, enters a trap set for a Turkish spy by the wily Count Bryennius. Swept along by events, Guy is pressed into service with Bryennius' regiment and journeys to the eastern Christian-Muslim frontier. There he encounters heroes, villains, traitors--and love--at the crossroads of the world where the future for a thousand years will be determined. An army of Seljuk Turks, after storming two Christian...