Meet the young Will Shakespeare – a strong willed, impulsive young man with a fiery tongue, an eye for the town tarts and a penchant for poaching. At 19 years old, he is struggling between his role as a husband and father and the desire to follow his dreams. Fate finds Will in the form of a roaming troupe of actors who tempt him away from his familiar security toward a destiny that will prove greater than his hopes can conceive.