London, 1398. A nearly 60 year old Geoffrey Chaucer is unexpectedly drawn into the impending duel between Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray. To protect himself, he decides to keep a journal that chronicles the final two and a half years of his life, providing us with a fascinating look into late 14th century England, the women and men this pre-eminent medieval English poet loves, the intrigues of the Richardian court, and what compels someone who holds some of the most important jobs in the English bureaucracy to spend his nights writing poetry that is still being read and studied 600 years after his death.