When a designer plague threatens every living thing on earth, two 21st century soldiers must travel back in time. They are the only hope for a desperate world. Their mission: to win a war that was lost six thousand years ago. The odds against them are impossibly long. What they find goes beyond anything ever expected as the sun begins to rise on the First Dawn. 4,000 B.C. - Among the tribes of the Danube River basin, the People of the Badger survive by hunting and trading, but their peaceful existence is threatened. A bloodthirsty clan tames the horse and swaths a path of rape, death, and destruction across the land. This is the destine that awaits the People of the Badger. Until a woman and a man appear out of nowhere to lead them. On an epic quest to save humanity, these warriors from the future must destroy the innocence of the past and teach the hunters to take up arms and same themselves from an onslaught, the consequences of which will be six thousand years in the future.