279 B.C.: The Gauls, led by the warlord Brennus, campaign against Greece with the aim of conquering it. They are determined to reach the Peloponnese and nothing can stop them, not even the brave men waiting for them at Thermopylae.

Meanwhile, in the city of Thermo in Aetolia, a woman who refuses to become a pawn of fate, Helen, the wife of General Callinus, will stain her hands with blood to avenge the brutal rape of her brother Cleomedes. A manhunt is unleashed in the mountains of Aetolia to capture the murderer and punish her as an example.

But as the Gauls approach and the gods conspire tirelessly behind the scenes, everything will be overturned, carrying with it ancient certainties and deeply rooted prejudices...

A story about the women who defended their families and homes. A story that was silenced, hidden for religious and patriarchal reasons, and forgotten over the centuries.