At fifteen, Eloise is married off to a man twice her age and taken to his forlorn castle in the mountains.

Thomas, a trobar (troubadour), and his companion, a juggler known as Babel, make their way from village to village, from tavern to castle, singing and entertaining.

While peasants work the fields, knights hunt and fight and joust, monks pray the hours of the day, and the seasons turn, Eloise and Thomas, separated as children, reunite.

Ultimately freed from her marriage to Robert by his death, it is however too late for Eloise and Thomas - their love seems doomed, as well in this tragic, but realistic story of broken hearts.