The miniseries chronicles the backroom political intrigues of the last weeks of peace before the outbreak of World War I on the European continent. The story begins on the fateful day, June 28, 1914, when the head of the British Foreign Office, Sir Edward Grey, receives word of the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the Balkans. The news instantly reaches the cabinet of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who seeks to reap his own advantage from the Sarajevo tragedy...