Judea is in flames; Romans ravage the villages and beseige Jerusalem. Thousands of captives arrive in Rome, fodder for the slave market.
Shulamit chafes under the chains of captivity. Mariam chokes in the chains of her role as Saducee princess. Chanan throws off the chains of his past life and embraces Rome.
Yet the links that bind them to the past also bind them to each other...