A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.

指挥官维尼裘斯（帕维·德朗柯 Pawel Delag 饰）深深的爱着身在罗马的人质公主丽姬娅（玛达琳娜·米尔卡兹 Magdalena Mielcarz 饰），于是，残暴的尼禄皇帝（克兹佐夫·马扎克 Krzysztof Majchrzak 饰）将丽姬娅赏赐给了维尼裘斯为妻。然而，丽姬娅公主是一个虔诚的基督教徒，她不能忍受维尼裘斯靠杀戮和掠夺过活，丽姬娅选择了离开维尼裘斯。
为了挽回丽姬娅，维尼裘斯找到了基督教的秘密集会处，开始聆听教义，试图理解基督教的核心思想，想通过此走进丽姬娅的内心。当维尼裘斯回宫时，尼禄皇帝正在焚烧罗马城，而丽姬娅就在其中，维尼裘斯闯入火海救出了爱人。皇后非常嫉妒维尼裘斯和丽姬娅之间坚贞的爱情，于是设计陷害。

Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In "I, Claudius", he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from the wise Augustus and his villainous wife Livia to the sadistic Tiberius and the insane excesses of Caligula. Written in the form of Claudius' autobiography, this is the first part of Robert Graves' brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, and stands as one of the most celebrated, gripping historical novels ever written.