According to accounts by the Roman historian Paterculus, in the year 6 A.D. a Roman army under Tiberius put up its winter camp in the Celtic Noricum. The exact site was called Carnuntum, and it was the moment of birth of a legendary Roman metropolis upon the Danube "in the land of the Barbarians", built as a bastion against invaders from the North.

Two thousand years later, this lavish HD documentary drama by multiaward winning producer Kurt Mündl portrays the history of and life in ancient Carnuntum.