Pompeya, año 79 d.C. Milo (Kit Harington), un esclavo convertido en gladiador, ve cómo a su amor, la joven Cassia (Emily Browning), la obligan a prometerse con Corvus (Kiefer Sutherland), un corrupto senador. Cuando el Vesubio entra en erupción amenazando con destruirlo todo, Milo intentará salvarla... mientras todo se derrumba.
A slave-turned-gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him.
