Racked by intrigues that promise great power or horrible death, marked by orgies of lust and torture and threated by a love mightier than an empire.
The noble tribune Valerius returns with his beautiful captive Princess Zenobia, from the parthian Wars only yo fine Rome rules by the boy-emperor Nero, a sickly tyrant with a taste for deadly "pleasures".
Nero himself is ruled by his young mother, The wanton Agrippina, who summons Valerius to her bed and offers him power in exchange for his passion.
Trapping between the lovely empress and her jealous son, Valerius must submit- or fight all Rome to save Zenobia, the woman he has grown to love...
The slave girl chosen to satisfy Nero's most hideous desires