This woman was a true daughter of her time - the era of half-crazed emperors and love madness, unprecedented luxury and unheard-of debauchery, coups, denunciations and executions. The name Messalina itself became a household name, going down in history as a symbol of voluptuousness and vice. The concubine of the bloody Caligula and the wife of the weak-willed Emperor Claudius, she was denounced as the greatest sinner and intriguer, who allegedly visited brothels, giving herself up to everyone for a fee, and was going to overthrow her husband in order to rule Rome herself - for which she paid with her life when her conspiracy was revealed...What is true in these accusations, and what is empty slander for the amusement of a crowd eager for dirty gossip? Was Messalina a “monster of depravity” and a criminal attacker - or an unfortunate victim of men and circumstances, who dreamed of finding love and peace in marriage, bore the emperor a son and tried to lead a righteous lifestyle - but was abandoned by her husband, betrayed by everyone she loved, and abandoned into a bloody whirlpool of palace intrigues and destructive passions, from which there was no escape...