What is love? A powerful force that can transform an ordinary person into a hero? A young and handsome god, who possesses both madness and reason? A simple carnal attraction that desires satisfaction, or a transcendent and eternal union of two lovers?

Is it the offspring of the myth of the androgynous humans, whom the gods envied and split in half, and since then each seeks their other half? Or is it merely a biological function of the human body? Or a Daemon, an eternal mediator between mortals and immortals?

In Plato's greatest work, the young poet Agathon, who won the award at the Lenaia in 416 BC, invites various prominent Athenians to his home the next day to celebrate with him: Aristodemus, Phaedrus, Agathon, Eryximaus, Pausanias, Alcibiades, Aristophanes, and Socrates himself, eat, drink, and try to find answers.