Richard Plantagenet carries a secret that torments him: he's intersex, a fact his own mother treats as a curse, and one that haunts him through supernatural visions no one else can see. Loosely adapting Shakespeare's Henry VI and Richard III, the story follows Richard through England's War of the Roses, as the Houses of York and Lancaster tear each other apart and his brother Edward moves closer to the throne. Torn between his own ambitions and his mother's rejection, Richard fights for a place in a world that has already decided what he is.