Norman (Normandiya'da yaşayan Frenk ve İskandinav kökenli halk) şövalyesi Jean de Carrouges ve Norman beyi Jacques le Gris eskiden çok yakın arkadaşlardır. Carrouges savaşa gider ve döndüğünde hiçbir şey eskisi gibi değildir. Le Gris, Carrouges'in karısına tecavüz etmek suçundan yargılanıyordur. Ancak kimse Margerite'e inanmaz. Bunun üzerine asker, karara itiraz etmek üzere Fransa kralına kadar gider. Hakim açısından ise Le Gris avantajlı konumdadır. Mahkemenin yeni kararına göre iki adam düello yapacak ve bu düellonun sonucunca biri ölecektir. Hayatta kalan kişi Tanrı'nın isteğini yerine getirmiş olacak ve eğer ki Le Gris hayatta kalırsa da aklanacaktır. Ayrıca eğer ki Carrouges kaybederse karısı ceza olarak bir kazığa bağlanarak yakılacaktır.

Son Düello

For decades the criminal underworlds of the North and South bumped along begrudgingly. Like the Cold War, territories were respected out of the necessity to avoid apocalypse, with each side keeping tabs on the other’s capability. Such a precarious false harmony could not last forever. Now someone has crossed the line, and there’s no going back. An illicit love affair smolders, breaking taboo and threatening catastrophe at the smallest mistake. It is a romance of purest, unadulterated love, yet so forbidden that its discovery would wreak total carnage. The story is told through vignettes of strikingly original characters, with intertwining subplots that echo the complexity of life in the dog-eat-dog criminal underworld.

North v South

Clancy Sigal ventured everywhere and accomplished everything a bold spirit possibly can in the turbulent course of a mere lifetime: street-smart city kid, precinct worker, union organizer, soldier, UCLA graduate, Hollywood agent, target of McCarthyism, European emigre, Fleet Street journalist, novelist, staunch leftist disdainful of party lines, enemy of cant of any kind, psychedelic journeyer, skeptical devotee of psychiatrist R. D. Laing, National Book Award nominee, and screenwriter of Frida and other films. An eloquent radical who shook up things in every milieu he encountered, nothing he ever wrote was predictable, except for the compassion, dark humor and demand for social justice always at the core. Hinged on extensive interviews with Sigal and with associates, this documentary offers an intriguing alternative view of recent US and UK history, peppered with provocative insights by the most savvy and candid of trans-Atlantic travelers. Interviewees include critic John Lahr, actor Oliver Cotton, editor Tim Radford, screenwriter Janice Tidwell, and many others.