Returning home from a long, brutal campaign against the Armenian army, the Hittite soldier Lukka finds the once magnificent Hatti empire in chaos, its capital city Hattusa engulfed in fire and terrorized by marauding gangs. His wife and young sons have been taken by slave traders.
Presents the 1950's epic film version of the story of Helen, an extraordinarily beautiful woman who sparked the Trojan War in which the Greeks defeated Troy by offering a mammoth wooden horse that secretly housed their fighting men.
Paris, prince of Troy, falls in love with Helen, the queen of Sparta, and convinces her to follow him away from her husband, sparking an epic war, and pitting Troy against Achilles, the greatest warrior in all the world.