In the early nineteenth century, Greece had just won its independence from the Ottoman Empire. Ioannis Kapodistrias, a Corfiot diplomat who rose through the ranks of European statecraft, is called upon to become the country's first governor. He gives up wealth, international standing, and personal safety to serve a fractured new nation, confronting foreign interference, internal rivalries, and the forces that will ultimately cost him his life. A historical drama about the birth of a nation.