In which a seasoned sailor and an aged nobleman part ways after a perilous sea voyage, the latter entrusting the former with secret orders to rally disparate royalist forces through the woods and villages of Brittany, employing cunning disguise and cryptic signals to evade republican patrols. As dusk falls over the desolate shore, the old man remains solitary, pondering the grave task that lies ahead amidst the silent, watchful landscape.