“Legend has it that no man can withstand Saladin's fury or the iron hooves of the Mamluk cavalry.”
On the towering walls of Jerusalem, the leper king, his face disfigured by illness, removes his silver mask before the assembled crowd for the first time. Beneath it is the face of a woman.
“But I was never a man.”
Around the holy city of Jerusalem, the cross and the crescent banner wage a war that drags on for years. The legendary leper king has passed away, and his sister dons his silver mask. From then on, she plays both roles, continuing to write the epic of the holy city with sword and fire.
Premise: A struggle over territory and faith
