A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal villiage where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.
In the tradition of UNDERWORLD and DISTRICT 9, all of Manhattan is quarantined when the Lupine virus spreads like wildfire, turning innocent civilians into ravenous wolves. Nothing short of a nuclear blast can stop the monstrous virus.