Young Huy attends school at Innu so he will have a chance at a better life as a scribe. While there, he befriends Thothmer, the son of a local govenor and becomes close to Thothmes' family. But Huy is unprepared for the jealousy this easy acceptance stirs in another pupil and soon suffers an attack that will change not only his own life but the course of Egyptian history.