The silk tree

Originalsprache ist Englisch.

Forced to flee Rome from the Ostrogoths, merchant Nicander and Marius, a fierce Roman legionary, escape to a new life in Constantinople. The two land upon its shores lonely and penniless. Determined to make their fortune, they plot a number of outrageous money-making schemes, until they chance upon their greatest idea yet. Armed with a wicked plan to steal precious silk seeds from the faraway land...