The modern rides parallel with the fifteenth century to tell the tale of Joan Archer as she sets out on a mission to swear-in the President of the Nameless who are in a turf war with a rival biker club, the Goddamns. In less than a year, Joan is dead and her mission accomplished. The devastated Bluebeard, however, whose promise of vengeance becomes tangled with convoluted notions of shepherding mankind, is not content to let her rest in peace. In his attempt to justify murder, he convinced himself he was above the law. Regrettably, he sank beneath it.