
By chance, Crissias, a young man as dreamy as he is discreet, becomes one of the ten hellanodices, the judges-referees of the Games of Olympia. Here he is called upon to play a major role in the greatest sporting competition in ancient Greece: he will have to select, support and decide between athletes who have come from all over the country, ensuring equal opportunities, loyalty and respect for the opponent. How to overcome corruption, violence and exclusion? What place should be given to women and foreigners? In the city of Olympia where the flame burns, symbolizing peace and unity between peoples, Crissias discovers a grandiose and cruel world whose values he will never cease to question. Those that allow the Olympic ideal to span the centuries.