Oscar-winning and visionary director Alejandro Amenábar (The Sea Inside, 77th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film) illuminates the story of Miguel de Cervantes, author of the revolutionary classic Don Quixote, who was a soldier held captive in Algiers in 1575. Like Sheherazade, Cervantes, still learning the trade that will make him famous, spins tales to impress Hasan, the Bajá of Algiers, in the hopes the writer will be set free.