The Roman patrician Vinicius loves the king's daughter Lygia, who adheres to the new Christian faith. Clumsily, he courts her, and she arrives at Nero's court just as the decadent emperor orders Rome to be set on fire. He blames the Christians for the act. Lygia and her servant, the incredibly strong Ursus, face death in bloody circus games. However, Vinicius, now a Christian himself, does everything he can to save his beloved. With thorough detail and linguistic power, Sienkiewicz depicted a love story in ancient Rome in 'Quo vadis?'. For his novel, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905.