The swashbuckling adventures of David Balfour, set in Scotland after the Jacobite rebellion. Young David Balfour came to the sinister House of Shaws to claim his inheritance. Instead, he found himself kidnapped, the victim of a plot to murder him. With the help of daring rebel Alan Breck, David escapes, only to get mixed up in a desperate adventure - suspected of murder himself, and hunted across the Scottish moors.