 The desperate struggle for power in the world of Ancient Rome is on. Its first emperor, Caesar Augustus faces the many challenges of leadership. On one hand there is his beautiful and beloved daughter Julia who cannot bring herself to accept her destiny and on the other he had his stepson, the unwilling Tiberius who is in the running to be emperor after him. Iullus Antonius, son of Augustus  enemy Mark Antony, who is in love with Julia is determined to seek revenge for his own father s death by killing Augustus and save Julia and her sons for the fate of death that will surely be bestowed on them by Augustus  wife, Livia.