Denmark, 799 AD. Gunnhild lives on a small farm with her family, but dreams of someday seeing the world. Everything changes when her father returns home from a raid with a captive—a girl her age who is put to work doing chores. Gunnhild seems to be the only one who takes an interest in the girl, whose name is Eadyth, but when her father doesn’t return home one summer, life changes drastically for both of them.