For centuries, two peoples have lived side by side. They long for peace, yet are doomed to conflict whether by the will of the gods or by nature itself. Every peace declared proves to be nothing more than a temporary truce, and woe to those who find themselves among strangers when it ends. Out of place. Unwelcome.
Young Ove, a tanner’s apprentice, has never known life beyond his northern homeland. But in a time of war, he must rise to defend a friend who has been cast out of their village into the vast, unforgiving forest — a death sentence in all but name.