In the mid-19th century among the grandeurs of morbidly romantic and sumptuously decadent imperial Wien an horrible plot against innocent lives blossoms like a spine and poisonous flower to satisfy an inextinguishable thirst for revenge.Through a frenetic cavalcade of overwhelming passions, betrayals and old loves whose flame never really faded, a young officer, who carries in his blood an oldest heritage of power, and a servant raised with him as a brother, who has got inside himself far more than he displays, have to face an hardest trial.Almost overcome by a pressing succession of unpredictable events and terrible struggles the two young men will discover that when all their world seems to hopelessly crush in ruins their deepest brotherly love only will reveal to be the trump card to not loose far more than life itself and eventually know their own destiny.