One Knight returns home in search of his son.'In a remote village in France in 1184, Balian (Orlando Bloom), a blacksmith and former warrior, is haunted by his wife's (Nathalie Cox) recent suicide after losing their unborn child. Peasant and lord alike flee to the Holy Land in search of fortune or salvation. Europe suffers in the grip of repression and poverty.
As the film begins, a title card opens the story, detailing its setting and historical backgrounds:'It is almost one hundred years since Christian armies from Europe seized Jerusalem.
