Adam, a rich and reclusive financier living in a country house in a rural backwater near Salzburg, Austria, gets a visit from his brother Zachary, from whom he was separated at birth. Zachary quickly pins him to a tree with an ancient spear through the chest. As the wounds miraculously heal, Adam begins to remember his past life as a knight a thousand years ago... but at the same time, the people he knows start dying around him. To save his friends' lives, Adam decides to leave his home and become a wanderering knight errant.