The story about the unfortunate King Baudouin, about his daughters - the good-natured Sibylla and the beautiful Isabella, about the lion of Islam Sultan Saladin, about the Old Man of the Mountain and his assassin-killers, about the knights - Raymond of Tripolitan and Conrad of Montferrat, and other Palestinian warriors, glorious and magnificent, cruel and treacherous, about immortal love and perjury, about fair duels and bloody battles between the crusaders and Saracens, about the treachery of the Johannites, about kidnappings and torture, about gold and leprosy, about how the Holy City of Jerusalem was lost by Christians, and about how the Templars protected him.