Stripped of rank and exiled to a remote Sardinian outpost, Roman soldier and suspected Christian Sebastiane becomes the object of his commanding officer Maximus’ aggressive desire. As Sebastiane turns his back on his fellow soldiers in favour of his own visionary mystical longings, the sun-bleached Mediterranean idyll becomes a psycho-sexual hothouse where predatory desire and religious longing set the stage for a shocking tableau of death and martyrdom.
