Ides of January of the year of the consulship of Lucius Opimius and Quintus Fabius Maximus. The Senate of Rome is becoming a battleground between the irreconcilable conservative factions and that of the followers of the revolutionary Gaius Gracchus. At the same time, the tension, increasingly palpable, threatens to turn into violent riots that would burn down the most powerful city in the world. All on the day that the future general Quintus Sertorius, one of the most brilliant strategists of the ancient world, will be born. Around him and his mother, Rhea, the stories of characters, each more different, are intertwined. Antiodemis, the actress who has come from Cyprus to conquer the Roman public and, in the process, her personal independence. Her protector, Servilius Caepio, a nobleman whose vices and debts make him one of the most dishonest and treacherous politicians in a city corrupt to the core. The brutal Celtiberian Nuntiusmortis, his escort. The Greek scholar Artemidorus, who