About the title
Britain, 117 AD. A band of Roman invaders comes under a sudden attack by Pictish guerrillas, after which one of the survivors, the Roman soldier Quintus Dias (Michael Fassbender), joins the Ninth Legion, nursing a secret plan to take revenge on the accursed Picts. Kurylenko plays a Pictish warrior woman who is herself consumed by a thirst for vengeance against the Roman invaders, ever since they brutally slaughtered her family and cut out her own tongue.