 After ten years, The Trojan War is over. All its men are dead, all its women s fate lie in the hands of their conquerors: a future filled with dread, punishment and humiliation. In a prison, as the women await their fate, they struggle to keep alive their dignity, their humanity and their memories of a civilisation soon to be lost for ever. Two thoughts keep them alive: to see their prince, Astyanax survive to found a new Troy. And to see the punishment by death of the woman they blame for all their suffering Helen.