Servio Italico's choice to break with his family's traditions will give rise to a lineage that, for five generations, will walk alongside the history of the first century.
From the defeat of Teutoburg to the conquest of Britain, from the death of Octavian Augustus to the fire of Rome, from the eruption of Vesuvius to the first campaign of Dacia, men and women will find themselves in the presence of the founding idea of ​​the Roman Empire, shaken by novelties and evolutions in an attempt to defend the values ​​of an ancestral and now past virtue.
To complete the vision of the century, two collateral stories intertwine in the plot: trade and cultivation in the Chinese Empire following the rise and fall of the Eastern Han dynasty and the growing tensions in a family of zealots between Judea and Syria.