**Video:** 624x394, XviD 488 kbp/s **Audio:** Japanese, MP3 146 kbp/s, 48 kHz, stereo **Subtitles:** English, hardsubbed _We are in Sicilia at the time of Magna Graecia. Melos is a good boy from Messina and has come to Syracus, the magnificent city of temples, to buy a ritual sword for his sister's marriage ceremony. He meets a very talented sculptor and they become friends. After a while the king's guardians arrest Melos, while he was having a walk in the castle's gardens and Syracus' king, obsessed by the idea of anybody wanting to kill him, sentences him to death. Melos is desperate, but most of all he wants to be present at his sister's ceremony, so he asks the king for three more days to go to Messina for the celebration and then to come back to Syracus where he will accept the death penalty. The king does not trust him, but trying to demonstrate that nobody could trust him, asks him to find a volunteer substitute in case he'd escape. The sculptor friend accepts to be Melos' substitute in this case..._