At a village harvest festival, as the chilled winds breathe the onset of winter, the young farmer Andris meets Rhian, a mysterious young woman that somehow seems familiar from his past. She bears an iron sword, unusually heavy and off-balance, and she tells him a false name. That night, she pulls him into her violent struggle to save her family, as he learns that she is the princess of their small kingdom, who had helped to try to save his...