While the distant kingdom of Belaventura was preparing to choose his new King between Otoniel and Severoo, two men full of ambition, Pietra a poor peasant, and Enrico, rich and future heir to the throne, met for the first time and awakened a beautiful and impossible passion. However, 15 years after the separation that fate has given them, the prince and the plebeian will eventually find each other again to fight together for the future of all their people.
The story begins in the city of Pi-Ramesses, in Egypt, at approximately 1300 B.C, when the powerful pharaoh Seti, orders the death of every male newborn in his hatred of the Hebrew people. Amidst the horrors of mass infanticide, one brave Hebrew family defies Pharaoh`s command and hides their child in a basket set afloat on the river Nile, trusting that God would carry him to safety.