Le jour du mariage de sa fille, Agamemnon ordonne son sacrifice.
Sa fille est conduite à sa mort, et Agamemnon conduit son armée au combat, où il est récompensé par une victoire glorieuse.
Trois ans plus tard, il rentre chez lui et son action meurtrière a mis toute la famille - mère, frère, sœur - sur un chemin de violence intime. Alors que sa femme cherche sa mort, sa fille, Electra, observe silencieusement, tandis que son fils, Oreste, est envoyé dans un abominable exil où il lui faudra lutter pour sa survie. De leur perte désolante, Electra et Oreste doivent trouver un moyen de réparer les torts du passé, quittes à perpétrer un acte terrible et barbare.

On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory. Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and soundless journeys through the palace's dungeons and bedchambers. As his wife seeks his death, his daughter, Electra, is the silent observer to the family's game of innocence while his son, Orestes, is sent into bewildering, frightening exile where survival is far from certain. Out of their desolating loss, Electra and Orestes must find a way to right these wrongs of the past even if it means committing themselves to a terrible, barbarous act.