Briff synopsis ( feature film ):

1370 BC. The mighty King Tushrat of Mitanni prepares for war against Egypt. Pharaoh Amenhotep III marches out to meet him in battle. During the clash, Egyptian warriors capture Tushrat’s beloved daughter, twelve-year-old Princess Tadukhipa. Amid the chaos, the young princess is killed.

Broken by grief, King Tushrat raises his voice to the sun god, begging for her return. His prayer is answered. The girl rises from death, renames herself Nefertiti, and commands her father to end the war with Egypt and send her into the Pharaoh’s harem.

There, Prince Amenhotep IV is struck by her beauty and falls deeply in love. Soon after, Pharaoh Amenhotep III dies. By ancient custom, all of his wives must be entombed with him alive. At the last moment, Amenhotep IV defies fate: he secretly replaces Nefertiti with another girl, sacrificing her in Nefertiti’s place. He then stages her miraculous resurrection, convincing the people that she is a daughter of the god. Against the will of the priests, he weds her and takes a new name — Akhenaten, “he who serves Aten, the sun god.”

Together, Nefertiti and Akhenaten embark on a daring transformation of Egypt, reshaping its religion and its politics. They exalt Aten above all gods, breaking the power of the temples and angering the priesthood. Their reforms ignite hatred within Egypt and provoke fear among neighboring kings.

Yet tragedy shadows their reign. Nefertiti cannot give Akhenaten a male heir, a wound that becomes both their deepest sorrow and the undoing of their marriage. Under relentless pressure from the priests, the royal union crumbles.

The high priests, allied with General Horemheb, plot to overthrow the throne. Sculptor Thutmose — once a confidant, and the father of Nefertiti’s secret son — warns her of the conspiracy. But the warning comes too late. Akhenaten is murdered by traitors. Nefertiti rises to fight the usurpers, but Horemheb escapes, seeking to unite with Egypt’s enemies.

Abandoned by her allies, encircled by foes, Nefertiti faces her final, desperate stand. Alone, she takes up arms to defend her throne, the new faith of Egypt, and the lives of her six daughters and the illegitimate son she bore to Thutmose.