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It is the dawn of the first Crusade. Two lovers are separated by a jealous husband. One, a young knight, pledges his everlasting love to her before leaving to fight in a far away land. The husband’s wife pines for her lover to return, but alas he is slain by a mortal wound, but he has one last request: to have his squire cut out his heart so it may be returned to his one true love. The squire does as he is told and takes this morbid keepsake and travels back to Europe, but as fate would have it, he is intercepted by the jealous husband who tricks him into giving him the heart to present to her. He prepares for her a final meal, which she ate and left no crumbs. Once finished, the husband reveals that the dish was made of the braised heart of her lover. Mortified, she vows to never eat again and does so, slowly withering away until her death….