Spartacus is captured and forced to fight to the death in the arena. After surviving the onslaught, he is sold to the Ludis of Batiatus where he is thrust into a world of sex and violence. He finds an unlikely ally in fellow slave Crixus, as they are both expected to please Lucretia. In addition to performing in depraved orgies, they must train to fight against the unbeaten giant Androcoles. Will they fall victim to the gladiator or will they prove victorious and earn their freedom?

Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.