Rachel discovers she is pregnant. Just as she is about to break the news to her stockbroker boyfriend Bill, he dumps her. Heartbroken and angry, Rachel takes Bill's cherished sports car, clears out their joint bank account and heads off to the country and to her dysfunctional family's farmhouse. By trying to sort out her own family's problems Rachel hopes to come to terms with her own predicament. But Bill discovers her whereabouts and is on the warpath.

When an absorbing new manuscript finds its way across his desk, Marcus Walwyn (Gideon Turner), an impressionable young publisher, befriends the book's author (Peter Davison) and suddenly has trouble leaving his work at the office. Intrigued by the volume's step-by-step instructions on how to stalk and murder an unsuspecting victim, Marcus grows obsessed with becoming an expert. This made-for-television drama is based on the book by M.S. Power.

恺撒大帝在公元前55年就开始了对英国的入侵，但他从未在英国实现他的统治。在公元43年，Claudius皇帝下令征服英国，在这第二次入侵时发生了女王博阿迪西亚的故事。剧情讲述西元60年时，Iceni人的女王博阿迪西亚领导叛变以反抗罗马人，在她的指挥下克尔特部落各族结成了同盟，用最新的兵器武装起来勇敢的向罗马军队发起了挑战，给强大的罗马军队以有力打击。被弄伤威信的罗马暴君皇帝调集了占压倒性优势的大军前来镇压。于是，一场关系到民族命运的激战在伦敦郊外展开了……
根据公元一世纪英国东英格兰克尔特（Iceni）部落女王博阿迪西亚（Boadicea）领导英国人反抗罗马军队的历史传奇改编拍摄而成。