Face to the firing squad a dictator is awaiting death. As the soldiers shoulder their rifles, the man remembers... He recalls with wicked jubilation his devouring ambition, his complete absence of scruples, his brutal lack of humanity, his taste for manipulation, the cowardice of his entourage, his ambiguous relationships with a woman named Dêmokratia... A few seconds later - light years for him -, the bullets are ejected from the guns but the autocrat is already away from this world. Among the dignitaries in attendance... a gloating new tyrant is about to seize the reigns of power.