Two thousand years ago in Jerusalem, a young Centurion in the Roman Empire named Marcus Plavus was ordered to command a squad of legionnaires to crucify a Jewish man named Jesus. Tribune Quantus was a friend of Jesus and Marcus' commanding officer. This story is based on actual facts as revealed in the Holy Bible and the imagined impact of the crucifixion of Jesus on Quantus, Marcus and his wife Maria, who was a true daughter of Rome. The events are both fascinating and thrilling.