India, 1857. Joseph Dando, a resilient young Cockney, finds himself on Delhi Ridge in India fighting a bloody mutiny. After surviving the outbreak of the mutiny in Meerut, along with the ghastly killings, looting, and rapes, Dando and the rest of the survivors face the brutal hike across the Doab Desert to help protect Delhi...and prevent the fall of the British Empire in India. Will fortune favour the bold, or will Britain's last line of defence...