Years pass, centuries change, and Rome stands. Having survived terrible fires, the madness of Caligula, the pompous flowering of the times of Nero, overcoming the terror of Domitian, benefiting in the era of "good" emperors, the Roman state continues to develop, growing with new provinces and mastering new areas of thought. And throughout the history of ancient Rome, the line of the Pinarius clan unfolds: one of them was an augur predictor, the other adopted Christianity, the third chose the path of a sculptor, transforming the appearance of the Eternal City - and each was kept by a magical talisman, fasinum, passed from father to son from generation to generation.