1454. The English throne is occupied by Henry VI - a mentally ill king who is not able to independently bring a spoon to his mouth, not that to rule the power. Real power is greedily torn from each other's hands by his wife, Queen Margaret, and Richard Yorke, Lord Protector, "The Protector and Counselor of the Kingdom." On the side of both are numerous lords, earls, barons and dukes, only waiting for an occasion for the glory of the king to compensate for old grievances or to take hold of other people's possessions. Small skirmishes inevitably lead to more and more blood. Over the country, blazing fire of civil war, rose the banners of the scarlet and white roses.