languedoc (france)

The Blue Flame, sparked at the moment of Christ's death, is in danger of falling into the wrong hands yet again as northern enemies draw near, and as a new religious crusade begins, the love between lifelong friends Raimon, son of a Cathar weaver, and Yolanda, daughter of a Catholic count, is threatened.

In the winter of 1208 while the dispute between the Pope and the Cathars intensifies, thirteen-year-old Lady Elinor, secretely in love with the troubadour Bertran de Miramont and determined to avoid her imminent marriage to an older man, runs away from her family's castle disguised as an apprentice troubadour, unaware of the dangers ahead as the Albigensian Crusade begins its onslaught on her native Languedoc.

In the waning days of winter in 1244, with much of Occitan destroyed by the northern crusaders, Raimon, separated from the now-married Yolanda, tries to find a way to recover the Blue Flame from the hands of the evil White Wolf, leader of a band of Cathars seeking refuge at the mountain fortress of Monts?gur.

The Blue Flame, sparked at the moment of Christ's death, is in danger of falling into the wrong hands yet again as northern enemies draw near, and as a new religious crusade begins, the love between lifelong friends Raimon, son of a Cathar weaver, and Yolanda, daughter of a Catholic count, is threatened.

As the conflict in Languedoc, also called Occitan, intensifies, Raimon, having escaped the pyre, suppresses his longing to find his beloved Yolanda and, together with Parsifal, carries the Blue Flame to the mountains where it serves to rally loyal Occitanians to organize against the formidable French forces set to invade their beloved country.

In 1242 in the restive Languedoc region of France, Parsifal, having been charged as a child to guard an important religious relic, has lived in hiding for much of his life until he befriends a young couple on opposite sides of the escalating conflict between the Catholics and the Cathars.