In the 13th century BCE a new and deadly threat faced the kingdoms along the western seaboard of Bronze Age Anatolia, already struggling for survival with their eastern neighbor, the empire of the Hittites.
An immense Greek armada landed in front of Troy, bent on conquest and pillage. The Hittite emperor Muwatalli II, confronted with growing hostility and challenges from Nineveh and Egypt, was unable to send support.
The local kingdoms were left to face the invaders on their own, and the brunt of the ordeal fell on the kingdom of Troad of King Priam, and eventually on the kingdom of Lykia of young King Sarpedon, the son of the great god.
This is the story of Sarpedon the child, the lover, the hero, and how his fate became in many ways intertwined with the fate of the Hittite Empire and with the Greek invasion in the northern kingdom and the destiny of that war.