As Denmark declares another military victory over Sweden, in quiet Wittenberg, Germany, a scarred Swedish soldier, Galen, dares to win his Princess Margaret's love by conspiring to kidnap Prince Hamlet. But what they don't know -- Hamlet's brother Valdemar has come in secret to woo and marry Margaret to ratify the peace! Plots converge to murder and bloody indulgence on the streets as Martin Luther prepares for Lent, 1517.