"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" Julia, beautiful, insecure and misused, overcomes great disadvantage to become the richest person in the ancient Roman Republic. Living a double life, Julia secretly wields power from behind the scenes, conspiring, manipulating, seducing and bribing to punish those who have wronged her. When her vengeful genius sets Rome's greatest generals Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Gaius Marius on a collision course, Julia sets off a chain of events that destroys the Republic and condemns her to suffer for even more sins of her past.