The Roman Empire is crumbling. Church and state grow increasingly hostile to women.  In Britannia, Glenys a traditional Celtic healer is forbidden to practice.  In Alexandria the patriarch bans Hypatia, the last librarian of Alexandria’s great library, from teaching mathematics and philosophy.  Their heroic resistance leads to the cataclysm of Lenten Week, 415 A.D. that ushers in the Dark Ages.