Syracuse, 212 BC. While the Romans besiege the city, a soldier, unaware of becoming an inconvenient witness to history, enters Archimedes's home. It is the great mathematician's last night before the young Roman's polished blade can penetrate him, ending his life. In an unreal monologue that transforms into a dialogue, the Syracusan genius will retrace his life, in the limbo that precedes death, recounting the pain of man and the satisfaction of inventor, while also emphasizing the baseness of those who, out of ignorance, stigmatize. He, Archimedes the mathematician, inventor, and physicist, is in truth a lonely man, forced to abandon the woman he loves, to prove every day that he is worthy of his fame, condemned, despite himself, to live on the uncertain border between genius and madness! In an imaginative succession of legends and truths, inventions and history, Archimedes recounts the world, the unbridgeable gap between those who nurture an insatiable hunger for justice and those who hide behind hypocrisy. A timeless story, then, in which the Sicilian inventor becomes a paradigm of the present and a warning for the future.