As the Olympian gods struggle to make sense of the end of their empire, a rebellion rises from the valley below. The film stars only poets who recite a script in dactylic hexameter—the metre of Greek epic—and examines how the forces of power often fail to recognise the frailty of their rule. Meanwhile, the oppressed realise they need not wait for the perfect storm to strike. The romantic title of the film, borrowed from Karl Marx’s unfinished play Oulanem, suggests that revolution and love both have the power to create sudden and magnificent disequilibrium.