When Captain John Lacroix returns home from Spain, wounded, unconscious, and alone, he believes that he has seen the worst of what men may do. It is 1809, and in England's wars against Napoleon, the Battle of Corruna stands out as a humiliation. Slowly regaining his health, Lacroix journeys to Scotland with the intent of forgetting the horrors. Unbeknownst to him, however, something else has followed him back from the war.