This prequel to A Plague Tale: Requiem (the second game in the series) comes between the first game and the second. It finds Amicia and Hugo frantically fleeing from the Inquisition in 14^th century France. The children are left completely on their own in a world where the Black Death wreaks havoc and hordes of rats swarm everywhere they go. The prequel provides the keys to understanding A Plague Tale: Requiem and promises thrills and spills in one of Europe's darkest eras, that of the Hundred Years War and the Black Death.