Worlds collide when a down-on-his-luck, 22nd century alcoholic cons his way into joining an unlikely team of experts for a time-travel experiment that sounds too good to be true. A washed-up admiral is set to command the doomed expedition, rounding out a crew of starry-eyed scientists, a naive Siberian monk, a mercenary with no morals, a beauty with no boundaries, a conniving villain with everything to gain and a former resistance fighter ready to sacrifice it all. What begins as a labor of love leads to kill or be killed on the streets of Rome, and the fate of an empire hangs in the balance.