A tragedy of tyranny faith, and fatherhood: the slow descent of Russia’s first Czar, Ivan, into a paranoid religious madness deep inside the dim, candlelit halls of his kremlin. As his despotism and his gruesome reign of terror bring his kingdom to the brink of destruction, his beloved son Ivan tries to stand in his father’s path of bloodshed. What transpires would seal the fate of his dynasty and his people, and forever earn the Czar his infamous title – the Terrible.