In ancient Rome, a senator's quest to alter history clashes with a time-traveling historian's mission to preserve the timeline, leading to chaos and a race against time to restore the original course of events.
Protagonist: A Roman senator with a secret agenda to change the course of history; Deuteragonist: A time-traveling historian from the future who is determined to prevent any alterations to the timeline.
The Roman senator discovers a way to manipulate the timeline, leading to a series of historical changes and conflicts with the time-traveling historian who is determined to stop him.
In the end, the Roman senator's attempts to alter history result in chaos and destruction, leading to the realization that some events are meant to unfold as they did. The time-traveling historian ultimately convinces the senator to undo the changes, restoring the timeline and preserving the course of history. The senator learns the importance of accepting the past and embracing the future, and the historian returns to the future, leaving behind a changed but intact Rome.
Twist: The time-traveling historian realizes that the Roman senator's actions have inadvertently created a new timeline, and that their world is actually the altered one. In a race against time, they must find a way to restore the original timeline before it's too late.