<p>It is perhaps the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one a castaway plucked from the sea by fishermen whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence will become the subject of a dangerous experiment.<br><br>But the arrival of the Inquisition on the island creates a darker more threatening force which will transform what has been a philosophical game of chess into a matter of life and death...</p>