1880. Ireland was being bled by the selfishness of its absentee landlords and the iron clutch of British rule. Against this tyrannical background, Captain Boycott fought a bloodless revolution on the shores of Lough Mask. He forged a weapon that would strike terror into the heart of any man that levied an unjust rent, or who seized a farm from which his neighbor had been unjustly evicted. That weapon was ostracism and isolation. This is the story of the man whose name gave a dreaded word to the English language in the stormy days of the Land League.