Year 73 B.C. Nothing indicates an uprising when a small group of gladiators manages to escape from the school in Capua. Rapidly a conflagration develops that spreads across the whole country. Under the leadership of the Thracian Spartacus, they defeated the roman armies, victorious all over the world, time and time again. For almost three years, they mastered the italian peninsula and the centre of the then world power, Rome.