An obscure area of Basque history comes to light in this treatment, set late in the fourteenth century before the unification of Spain. Carlos II, King of Navarre (known as "Carlos the Bad") sends a detachment of warriors off to the far end of the Mediterranean in conquest of Albania, territory belonging to him by marriage. "The Great Navarran Company"--some thirty men--set off, soon to encounter basic survival conditions and the cruelties of war. This historical epic is the biggest Basque production ever (still, at $500,000, weighing in as a relatively low-budget affair). But on another level The Conquest of Albania is a non-action adventure film, a tale of dreams and realities and how they twist and frustrate one another, and an allegory of the illogic that invariably determines national identity.