The story begins in 1381 with a plowman who was plowing the fields.
A plague has killed half the population here and that included the plowman's family.
Now the plowman is completely alone.
He visits his family's grave. Meanwhile, 14-year-old King Richard II is having bad dreams.
He starts praying before God. Out of fear, he doesn't even go to meet his council.
In the king's absence, his council decides on its own that to save the kingdom, they need more money.
But if they tax the merchants, the merchants will demand a seat at the council table and they can't collect taxes from.
The church or the bishops either.
They decide to tax the common people who are already paying heavy taxes.
After paying this tax, they won't even be able to support themselves.
The tax collectors were checking the girls to see whether they were of age so they could decide whether to tax them.
As adults or as children. This plowman arrived here to pay his annual tax, but he didn't have proper documents to prove.
That his family had died 7 years ago.
That meant he would have to pay their death tax or king's tax all over again.
Seeing the checkups being done on the girls here, the plowman asks the tax collector how much of this tax is going.
Into his own pocket. He shouts angrily, "We have given you enough."
So, a soldier starts beating the plowman, but he fights back and seeing him, the rest of the people fight back, too.
The plowman kills that soldier. But by nightfall, fear had spread through the whole village that the soldiers would come back and.
Kill them. The plowman started sharpening his sickle.
The next day, when the king's soldiers arrived, the village was almost empty.
A few people stood in front of them holding weapons.
The king's chief justice tells the villagers that they owe everything they earned to their lord, Bochamp.
He has it all in writing.
Pay your taxes and give the name of the man who killed the soldier yesterday or everyone will be punished.
The plowman steps forward himself and says he killed that man, but to save a child.
He's ready for punishment, but they shouldn't do anything to the rest of the villagers.
When the chief justice starts to hang the plowman, more villagers who were hiding nearby come out and they once again fight.
The king's men. The chief justice is thrown off his horse and they take his jewels.
They kill Lord Bochamp and are about to kill the Chief Justice too when the plowman stops the villagers.
Instead, they tie him to his horse and send him away from here in shame.
The villagers go and break into Lord Bochamp's manor house and burn all the written records.
Meanwhile, the king once again wakes up at night from a bad dream.
He kept dreaming of hooded devils who were extremely angry.
The priest calls the king their messiah and tells him to put all his trust in the council.
After that, the next day, his mother was crying and praying at her husband's grave, asking him to teach their son how.
To be a king. Meanwhile, the village priest brought the plowman a message from across the river.
The people of Kent have also risen up in solidarity with them, and they are all being led by an outlaw priest,.
John Ball, who had been locked in the archbishop's prison until now.
But now, the rebels have broken him out.
But the plowman didn't want to leave his family behind here.
The priest explains that they would want this too for him to fight this injustice.
Who knows? Maybe only then would they find peace.
The plowman went to meet Jon who is addressing the rebels with strong words.
Let us reach London on Corpus Christi and put our petition for justice before the king.
They see the king as just and fair but held hostage by his council.
The plowman meets Jon and tells him that their priest is gathering at least 2,000 more people to join him.
Jon then introduced the plowman to Tyler, who leads the men of Kent.
Tyler had served in the military under the king's late father.
But when he returned from France, he found England in this state.
300 years ago, when the French king conquered them, he wrote down all the information about the land in a book called.
Doomsday.
To calculate how much tax should be collected from them.
They can't end all this by driving away one tax collector.
They will have to destroy the entire Doomsday book itself.
One rebel army from Kent, one from Essex, one from Herford, one from Bedfordshire, and one from SuffK are all advancing toward.
London. And in London, too, there are people ready to join them.
Meanwhile, rebels also break into the cathedral that holds the tomb of the king's late father, Edward.
Because of this, the king's mother, Joan, had to flee from there.
Elsewhere, the king's council calls him and informs him about this rebellion.
The king said fearfully, "I saw this coming."
He shuts his door. On the plowman's side, they light a fire and the same fires are lit in the distance, too.
It means more people have joined them.
The next day, everyone started marching toward London.
Here, Jon started telling the plowman that being touched by the plague and still surviving was a sign from God.
But the plowman had lost his faith in God.
Right then, he met a girl named Allice, who like the plowman was from a marshland area.
She too believed that some miracle would surely happen when they got there.
Along the way, the rebels were destroying every church they came across along with its wealth.
Seeing all this, the plowman was a little confused about why they were being violent.
While they were blocking a road, the carriage of the king's mother, Joan, comes in front of the plowman.
They stop it. Joan let the plowman come closer and asked him to show his face.
When she asks, the plowman tells her that they have come to put their petition before the king, and they have come.
To free him from those traitor council members.
Joan also wished them good luck, hoping the king gives them justice.
But elsewhere, a council member gets the king to order their armies back here from Scotland and France so they can put.
Down this turmoil. During the night, the rebels captured a council member, John Newton, and his family while they were traveling.
The rebels were ready to kill them, but the plowman says this man knows about the king.
Asking John Newton, they learned that the king is not in London, but even further outside London at Windsor Castle for more.
Safety. He told them the way there, which is 2 days beyond London.
Tyler asks him about London's defenses.
But John Ball suggests to Tyler that they go to London and destroy the doomsday book.
But the plowman said, "We don't want London.
We have to petition the king."
John Newton also said he could go to Windsor and Parley with the king for them.
John Ball doesn't think this plan is right.
But the plowman says it is, and Tyler supports the plowman in this.
They sent John Newton to the king with their message, asking the king to meet them, and until John Newton returned, they.
Would keep his family here. John Newton went and gave the rebels message to the king and his council.
They want to meet you and in the name of a miracle they are expecting their freedom from you.
The rest of the council decided that the king will go there, face those rebels and hear their petition.
But then he will tell them to go back from there and out of respect for the king's presence and his order,.
They will actually go back. This will give the king's army time to get here and it will crush these rebels.
Joan doesn't support this idea, but the council in a way scares the king into agreeing with them.
The next day, the king went to meet them.
The king was on one side of the river and the rebels on the other.
Seeing the king coming, they became extremely happy.
They were so happy that they all started crying.
But the council stops the king's boats, keeping him from crossing to the other side of the river.
Instead, they will send a messenger on the king's behalf.
From this side, the plowman stepped forward.
John Ball gives him a list of traders to hand over.
The king's messenger asked the plowman what petition he wants to put before the king.
The plowman gave him the paper with the list.
But the council won't let this reach the king either.
They will read it themselves. Here the messenger told all the rebels to go back home.
And hearing this, everyone started booing.
The plowman asks the messenger whether this is the king's will or his councils.
As soon as the council read their own names on that list as traitors, they hid the list and took the king.
Back with them. Seeing all this, the rebels decide that if the king can't come here, they will go to him.
Tyler explained to everyone that they will only target the courts, the records, and the palace and nothing else.
No looting. Meanwhile, the council members tell the mayor of London to gather his merchant militia.
But the mayor asked for money for this.
The king is locked in his quarters.
With the help of people inside, the bridge is lowered and the rebels enter the city.
They ask the people inside to join them too.
The rebels set about searching for the council members and burning records.
Here, the council members were not ready to pay the mayor for the militia.
The rebels reached the tower where the king and the entire council were.
But they can't get past the high walls to go inside.
The plowman started shouting, "King, king."
So that their voice would reach him.
Everyone starts chanting with him.
Sitting in his quarters, the king could hear their voices.
His council started telling him there was nothing to worry about.
The rebels can't get into the tower.
But now the king screams at them.
He asks the mayor about the militia.
So mayor told him his fee.
The council calls this extortion and doesn't want to pay this money.
But the king tells them to hear the rage in the rebels voices.
He said, "I will listen to the rebels."
He conveys the message that he will meet the rebel leaders tomorrow outside the city walls.
The mayor will go there with him and his council will stay here.
The next day, the king came out of the tower.
He goes outside the city walls and meets the rebel leaders.
Tyler told him their demands that they want fair taxes, fair wages, and more, and that there be no retribution for the.
Rebellion. After that, Jon came forward and showed him the list of traders, which the king calls a big demand.
The king himself called the plowman forward and asked why he wasn't saying anything.
The plowman says, "I'm just a farmer.
I live in the soil and when I die, I will go into it."
But he explained how everything is broken.
They are forcing the land to work more than it can give.
And by working that much, they are doing the same to their own bodies.
Here, the plowman told them about his dreams, how his loved ones who have left this world haunt him.
The king asked him more about his dreams.
He agrees to fulfill all the demands.
Today they will make a new settlement and end this torment.
The king tells them all to follow him to the royal scriptorum.
Where according to the plowman's words, he will have charters of freedom made for all the rebels.
Then Jon asked about the traitors.
The king gives the rebels his flag and tells them to go in his name and take their own justice from the.
Council members.
Following behind the king, the rebels went inside.
They break into the tower and capture all the council members and in the name of justice they cut off the heads.
Of these council members. Meanwhile, the plowmen reach the scriptorum with the king where the king shows him the doomsday book.
He said, "I also have fever dreams like you and that he wants to end all this too.
He will give everyone their charters tomorrow morning.
That means the plowman will have to get all the charters ready in just one night.
These scribes will write down his words."
The plowman told them to write down his freedom.
Outside, Tyler wanted to keep all the rebels under control until the charters were written, but people started looting and killing merchants.
The London mob starts taking its own revenge on them.
Inside, the scribes were busy quickly writing charters for all the rebels.
Outside, control was lost and London starts to burn.
The plowman stepped outside where people were killing the rich in the name of revenge.
Tyler and Jon have also lost control of this entire rebellion.
This rebellion has turned from a fight for justice into one of revenge and rage.
Seeing all this, the plowman was leaving the rebellion and going back.
Tyler tells him that the London mob did all this and they have now pushed them aside.
In an hour, they will get them under control.
But the plowman hadn't come to shed blood like this.
He doesn't see any miracle here.
He doesn't see any god in all this.
The plowman leaves, but allies asks him to stay, saying his family won't find peace if he leaves here.
Allies tells him how she has also lost someone.
One night at her convent, a drunk monk forcefully made her pregnant.
She was forced to carry and give birth to the child in secret.
But as soon as she was born, the baby girl was taken from Alice and Alice was left outside alone at night.
Alice had come here to take her revenge.
Now she wants to find her daughter in a place that belongs to her.
But they will never find that if they leave now.
So the plowman hugs Alice. He came back.
John Ball says, "You are not alone in your doubt or loss.
We all are. But if we walk together, we will find some way."
They all move forward once again.
The king also started getting ready to meet them.
He tells the scribe to take the charters and the doomsday book to the priaryy of St.
John which was a different place from the initial meeting place.
The rebels had already reached the meeting place and are waiting for the king.
But just then, while placing the charters at the new location, the scribe saw that the king's armed soldiers were hiding behind.
The trees there. He quickly ran from there.
Meanwhile, at the meeting place, the king arrives in front of the rebels.
Tyler went up to him. The king has ale brought for Tyler to drink.
From a distance, not seeing the charters here, the plowman starts to doubt that something is wrong.
With allies, he tries to see what exactly is going on between the king and Tyler behind the trees.
The king asked Tyler to come with them to the priaryy of St.
John where they will make him a knight.
But Tyler insists that this can be done right here.
The people are waiting, but then the king's men attack Tyler.
The king went to the people who got excited seeing him.
The king tells them to drop their weapons and follow him.
The injured Tyler rode off on his horse in the other direction.
Seeing him, the scribe runs after him.
The plowman also ran in the same direction.
The rebels dropped their weapons right there and followed the king.
Tyler reached the priaryy where the mayor arrives to kill him.
The scribe took Tyler aside, but Tyler sends him to warn the others.
The scribe tried to escape in front of the mayor.
Just then, the plowman arrived here.
Before dying, the scribe tells him that this is a trap.
The plowman tries to escape and run outside.
He defends himself by killing the guards that were coming for him.
Meanwhile, the king arrived with everyone's charters.
Seeing them, everyone was so happy that no one listened to the plowman coming from behind, saying that this is a trap.
But just then, the king showed everyone Tyler's severed head.
Right in front of the rebels, they set all the charters on fire.
From the forest, his army attacks the rebels with arrows.
And without weapons, the rebels can't even defend themselves.
The king they had placed all their hopes in was the same one mercilessly killing them all.
The plowman fights the king's soldiers.
He grabbed Alice and started looking for a way out of here.
He tells everyone to follow him, but John Ball chose to die right here.
The very next moment, the soldiers kill him.
The plowman saved as many people as he could.
He ties some carts together into a barricade and sets them on fire, so the soldiers can't follow them.
After a while, the king's mother comes here and sees the atrocity her son.
Richard II is calling himself the king his mother prayed for.
He is calling himself a peacebringer.
Meanwhile, the plowman returned to his village, which had been completely burned down.
In grief, he smears the soil of his home on his face and pulls his hood over his head.
He covers his face with a mask.
A year later, as the king's carriage was passing through the forest, a hooded man appeared in front of them.
The mayor tells this man to step aside.
But just then, the king's soldiers are attacked from the middle of the forest, and hooded people come out and kill them.
All. The mayor is captured and brought before the hooded man, who himself hands the mayor a sword.
This hooded man was the plowman.
The mayor throws mud in his eyes and fights him one-on-one.
The mayor gave the plowman a tough fight, but in the end, the plowman killed the mayor with his sickle.
He chokes him down with the sickle and kills him.
After that, the plowman takes off his mask in front of Richard II, sitting in the carriage and drags him out and.
Throws him in the mud. The plowman still had one charter left.
The plowman places his sickle on Richard's neck, but his mother begged for mercy.
The plowman doesn't kill Richard. He tells him that now we will rule ourselves.
No king will rule over us.
Richard II will only have their dreams every single day.
The plowman leaves Richard alive. Every night, Richard started screaming out of fear.
And with that, this story ends right here.
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