The Trojan Women

In the aftermath of the Trojan War, Queen Hecuba, the mother of slain Prince Hector, and the surviving women of Troy face a fate worse than death: they are to be taken back to Greece as slaves. With their men slaughtered and the city in ruins, the Trojan women refuse to surrender, knowing that the fall of their beloved city marks the beginning of a disgraced life of slavery. And, against the backdrop of the ravaged city of Troy, a few women try to avert the inevitable: Cassandra, priestess of Apollo and Hecuba's insane daughter; beautiful Helen of Argos, King Menelaus' adulterous wife and the woman responsible for all the suffering, and Andromache, Hector's widow and desperate mother of his only son Astyanax--the boy who must die.