When I begin to watch the movie I was very confused I actually thought I was watching the wrong movie. It starts off in Baghdad, Iraq. Where a poet of the court named Ahmad Ibn Fadlan is supposedly sent on a big mission as an ambassador. Ahmad is really just being exiled in a nice way because he fell in love with a beautiful woman engaged to a nobleman. The noblemen wasn't about to just allow Ahmad walk in and steal his woman. So this nobleman explains to his friend the Caliph that he needs him to get rid of Ahmad. So the Caliph sends Ahmad on a big mission as an ambassador, but really he is just getting exiled. All because of a woman can you believe that crazy if you ask me. Well so Ahmad goes on his big journey and he takes a friend
