Intrigue, struggle for power and popularity among the people, bribery and exposure, exorbitant ambition and thirst for glory - these are the secret mechanisms of the political life of Rome. The fate of one person among this stormy sea meant little, of course, if this person was not Marcus Tullius Cicero, a philosopher and rhetorician, a PR genius and an unsurpassed political strategist, whose thoughts and statements have been quoted by descendants for the second millennium. He walked on the edge of a knife, took risks and won, lost friends, made enemies and turned them into allies. He forced the swaggering Rome to bow at his feet. But one day the odds turned out to be not in his favor...