The story of the other love-affair on the set of Hollywood's most expensive film of its day. Against the backdrop of the famous love affair of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, a young woman finds herself in the backstage world of the famous 1963 epic Cleopatra. We follow her as she embarks on her own intense, emotional romance during the final days of the shooting of the doomed blockbuster. Burton and Taylor's romance remains a constant presence during her own romantic awakening in a world she knows nothing about.