在这部布鲁克剧情/战争片中,西班牙，1808年。1808年6月6日拿破仑的军队面临了第一次战败，而且完全是一个人造成的：一个年轻人利用在蒙塞拉特山打鼓引起的连续回声引起了法国军队的恐慌。当拿破仑·波拿巴本人得知消息后，给皇家卫队轻骑队队长阿兰·马拉瓦尔一个任务：追捕蒙塞拉特山的责任人并割下他的头作为惩罚的标志。队长聚集了他最满意的部下，开始寻找这个被称作布鲁克的年轻人。
1808. The Napoleonic Army suffers its first defeat at the hands of a single man: a drummer boy who used the Montserrat mountains to echo his drums and send the enemy troops into a panicked retreat. When the news reaches Napoleon, he furiously orders the captain of the Imperial Guard to bring back the head of the young hero responsible for his army's defeat. The captain gathers together a band of his best and most deadly men and so begins the hunt to death of the soldier who was to become a legend.
