The boy is spoiled, willful, and grotesquely selfish. He had been isolated from the harsh and violent world by his mother and raised in a forest. But he comes upon knights one day and from then on will not rest until he too wears armor and rides a magnificent war-horse. He leaves his mother and his boyhood life behind to set out into the great world, where he will encounter deep mystery, violence, love, sexuality, and--the Holy Grail.