Madeleine, a teacher of medieval history at the University of Caen in France, leads a quiet, measured life. She has not yet recovered from the breakup with her lover when her mother suddenly dies. Madeleine is saved from inescapable grief by the diary of a tapestry embroiderer who lived in the mid-11th century who accidentally came to her. Madeleine takes on the task of translating the diary and plunges into the events, intrigues, conspiracies reigning at the court of Edward, the last king of the Saxons, learns about the forbidden love of Queen Edith and the priest. Is it a falsification or a genuine diary? How is it connected to the history of the world famous Bayeux Tapestry? And what does all this have to do with Madeleine herself? What awaits her in England? Solving the mystery of the tapestry? New love?