Based on Peter Shaffer's famous play about the Spanish conquest of the Inca empire, The Royal Hunt of the Sun tells the story of a Spanish mercenary who goes to Peru in search of gold, immortality, fame and honour.

He defeats the Inca King by trickery, attacking the Inca soldiers after they had laid down their arms.

Yet a strange relationship develops between him and the king. Pizzaro, the mercenary, holds out of deep, useless, barely acknowledged affection, to the life-thread of another man …. Recovers joys, by finding real grief.