![Marie-Antoinette Queen of France](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/78ZUnWR1vDjYQ8Ip3Jrz63JpnhI.jpg)
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decission about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.