The historical novel describes the emergence of states and passionate conflicts - between Henry II. and his closest friend Tomáš Becket, between Eleonora and Henry's mother Matilda, who instills terror in everyone, between the father and his sons, because the king's descendants take up arms and rise against their father, and finally between Henry and Eleonora herself. The year is 1152 and a beautiful 30-year-old woman with a countless armed entourage is riding with the wind in a race across the territory of today's France towards the south. She leaves behind a crown, two young daughters and a broken marriage to King Louis VII of France, who looked more like a monk than a worldly monarch and was certainly not a very good lover. That woman is the Duchess of Aquitaine, Eleanor, and she is all about returning to her own vast possessions and marrying the man she loves - Henry Plantagenet, who is fated to become King Henry II of England. Their union is based on physical attraction, but it will allow the creation of a great empire, stretching from Scotland to the Pyrenees. From him will also come the devil's generation of the Plantagenets - including kings Richard the Lionheart and John the Landless - and perhaps the most infamous stormy marriage in history.