The series starred the German actor Amadeus August as the protagonist and the French actress Marie-France Boyer as Isabelle de Croye.

In a monastery in Scotland on the day of an ordination to the priesthood, Quentin Durward, a dashing young man of noble background, is about to be consecrated.

The hostile clan who killed Quentin's kin is determined to put an end to the bloodline one way or the other.

He heads for France because his only living relative, his uncle Lludovic Cunningham (played by Noël Roquevert), serves as a member of the Scottish Guard.

At the same time Isabelle de Croye, who is also an orphan, secretly leaves the Kingdom of Burgundy in order to elude an arranged marriage and find shelter in France too.