Bacanalia

Rome, 206 BC C. In the slave market, men watch a naked twelve-year-old girl with restrained lasciviousness. One bids for her: Fecenio. He has been a soldier and is a pimp. They call her slave Hispala, La Hispana. Someday, if she wins her freedom, she may be Fecenia as well. And then she will be doubly marked: by the servile stigma of having an owner even in her name and by the challenging stain in the shape of an ivy leaf that she shows on her chest. She says that she is "a mark of the gods", the symbol of her destiny. Slave superstitions... Or maybe not? Twenty years later, Hispala, the little goatherd, who never knew a father, since hers enlisted among Hannibal's troops before he was born, will play a leading role in the tragedy that cut short the lives of seven thousand Roman women (nobles and commoners, free women and slaves). Within a republican Rome that strives to expand its influence, to broaden its horizons while preserving traditions, the bacchae are out of control. His kingdom does not belong to this world. Immersed in mysterious ecstasy, they spiritually escape from an order established by patriarchal customs.