In 13th-Century England, expert archer, Robin arrives home from his service in King Richard's army against the French. Back in Nottingham, he finds a town suffering from the corruption of a despotic sheriff and crippling taxation.Hoping to restore justice (and earn the hand of Maid Marian), Robin assembles a gang of lethal mercenaries and together, they begin preying on the indulgent upper class to correct injustices under the sheriff. With their country weakened from decades of war, embattled from the ineffective rule of the new king and vulnerable to insurgencies from within and threats from afar, Robin and his men heed a call to ever greater adventure. This unlikeliest of heroes and his allies set off to protect their country from slipping into bloody civil war and return glory to England once more.