Synopsis:

Sicily, 241 BC After two decades of conflict with Rome, the Carthaginian army led by Hamilcar Barca must lay down their arms. His son, Hannibal, was six years old when he witnessed this battle. Routed, Carthage owes an astronomical tribute to the victor, and the child witnesses, helplessly, the humiliation of his family. But the young Hannibal refuses failure: brought up in hatred of Rome, he will devote his entire existence to the destruction of the enemy. Then begins the exceptional confrontation of one of the greatest tacticians of all time and his Roman alter ego, the military genius Scipio the African. Crossing the Alps on the back of an elephant, merciless looting and some of the bloodiest fights in living memory: a duel to the death that has marked history …