two tiger cub brothers are torn 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 tigers 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