While visiting her friend Oliver in London, sixteen-year-old Charlotte reluctantly agrees to accompany him on an important trip to Scotland, during which she examines their relationship and tries to understand him better.
Sold into slavery by his uncle, Davie Balfour is pressed into service as cabin boy to the drunken captain who kidnapped him and sees no way out of his predicament until Alan Breck Stewart, an exiled Jacobite, comes aboard.
Retells in graphic novel format Stevenson's story about David Balfour who, after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.