He is the one who is called the Master of High Justice; the one who takes life and gives death. He is an executioner. Being the executor of someone else's will, Arduin Venel Jr. never thought about whether those who ascend to the scaffold with him are guilty or innocent. Until he realized that sometimes judges make mistakes and only he can restore justice...France, end of 1305. A local baili, a royal official who governs the region, approached Arduin with a request for help. His beloved daughter Henriette, a novice at the Clerette monastery, was recently killed. Now he is burning with a thirst for revenge, with the desire to certainly find and punish the villain. The executioner and the bailiffs began an investigation and picked up the trail of the killer - at first glance, an ordinary night robber. However, some details of this case alerted Arduin. Apparently, the murdered girl had some dark secrets - and she gave up her life precisely because of them...