Music the Devil Cannot Hear

It is 1375 and the place is rural England where tensions are rising among the worker about unfair conditions and an unjust new tax. Tom Ferryman ploughs the fields in the estate around the village of Lofige in Kent and sometimes works for the landlord in his stables. His modest ambition is to marry Sarah and to succeed his friend Giles as the stablemaster for the landlord. A stranger arrives in town, bringing an Arabic boy who is apprenticed to the blacksmith, causing a scandal in the town. Tom has always kept his desire for men hidden, except to the priest in the confessional, but he feels more than desire for Jacob. He is in love and he doesn't know if he can keep that hidden. The tensions among the workers keep rising leading to the Great Uprising, sometimes called the Peasant's Revolution. Jacob enthusiastically joins the revolt but a twist of fate lands Tom enlisting in the King's Army and so the two are on opposite sides of the conflict. Tom is under the command of the handsome and charming captain, Richard Tarlyton and a friendship grows between the two although Tom is a peasant and Tarlyton comes from a noble family. Tom undergoes many adventures and dangerous situations. Tom's ambitions are now to stay alive and to find love, neither of which have a high chance of happening in medieval England.