High up on a stone seat in the great open-air theatre of Athens,Alexis, son of Leon, watches the Festival of Plays - and dreams ofseeing his own play on that famous stage. So, as the summer passes,Alexis writes his play for the next year´s Festival. But then, withhis friend Corinna, he learns that Athens has enemies - enemies who do not like Athenian democracy, and who are planning a revolution to end it all . . .