Tudor is the youngest son of two servants at the court of a great boyar of backward Wallachia. Since his birth, his ambition seems to guide his every step, and in his arduous rise to power he will not hesitate to leave his path strewn with corpses. King Solomon, the Queen of Sheba, John Lennon's great-grandfather, General Napier and Queen Victoria intersect in his story. Tudor will be Theodoros: bandit and pirate, devout sinner, the terror of the...