Don Quixote is ? middle-aged gentlem?n from th? region ?f La Mancha in c?ntral Spain.
Obsess?d with th? chivalrous id?als touted in books h? has r?ad, h? decides to tak? up his lanc? and sword to d?fend th? helpless and destroy th? wicked.
Aft?r a first fail?d adventure, h? sets out on a s?cond on? with a som?what befuddled labor?r nam?ed Sancho Panza, whom h? has persuaded t? accompany him ?s his faithful squir?.