In France in 1209, Pagan, now an archdeacon, takes on a new scribe named Isidore, a fifteen-year-old epileptic and an orphan, and together they try to survive the siege of Carcassonne.
Mother Marie Francoise, targeted by the Inquisition for practicing magic and communing with the devil, is urged to confess her sins to Michel, a Dominican scribe who is compelled to prove Marie innocent even after she reveals the truth about her pagan ways.
In France in 1209, Pagan, now an archdeacon, takes on a new scribe named Isidore, a fifteen-year-old epileptic and an orphan, and together they try to survive the siege of Carcassonne.