Two tiger cub brothers are town from the jungle and taken to Rome.

The stronger cub is trained as a killer at the Coliseum.

Emperor Caesar makes a gift of the smaller cub to his beautiful daughter, Aurelia.

She adores her cub, Boots, and Julius, a young animal keeper, teaches her how to earn the tiger's trust.

Boots is pampered while his brother, known as Brute, lives in a cold and dark cage, let out only to kill.

Caesar trusts Julius to watch Aurelia and her prized pet.

But when a prank backfires, Boots temporarily escapes and Julius must pay with his life.

Thousands watch as Julius is sent unarmed into the arena to face the killer Brute.