In the year 937 King Æthelstan grandson of Alfred the Great readies himself to throw a great spear into the north. His dream of a kingdom of all England will stand or fall on one field and the passage of a single day. At his side is Dunstan of Glastonbury full of ambition and wit perhaps enough to damn his soul. His talents will take him from the villages of Wessex to the royal court to the hills of Rome - from exile to exaltation. Through Dunstan's vision by his guiding hand England may come together as one great country - or fall back into anarchy and misrule . . .