An Old Soldier remembers the ten-year war at Troy and the events which led up to it: Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Cassandra, Odysseus…and the wooden horse.

Menelaus has entered the scene ... you regret that Ulysses or Agamemnon didn't marry me when you all wanted me, and I know you curse the day you ever saw me.

Menelaus returns to find that Helen has gone ... Initially he turns to his brother Agamemnon, who will be in charge of the army and to whom the Soldier is now assigned. Their first job is to ...