Emperor Sebastian rules an expansive realm but lives in perpetual torment, having spent long years searching in vain for his vanished love Sylvia and the child she bore him. Unbeknownst to the sovereign, corrupt stewards have kept his beloved woman and young heir trapped as common kitchen slaves inside his very own regional estate.
As rumors of cruel abuses at the rural palace reach the capital, Sebastian rides out in disguise to investigate the rogue officials defiling his royal crest. With his family facing execution by overseers trying to conceal their crimes, the monarch must piece together scattered clues before his own henchmen silence the captives forever.
