Cleopatra ruled Egypt for two decades, outmaneuvering rivals and forging alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony that kept her kingdom independent as Rome's power grew. This film traces her rise from a fractured Ptolemaic court to her position as the last pharaoh of an independent Egypt, using historians and on-location footage from Egyptian and Roman sites to reconstruct her political strategy rather than the romanticized version handed down by Roman propagandists. The second half follows archaeologists searching for her tomb, a site that has eluded excavation for two thousand years despite candidate locations including the temple complex at Taposiris Magna. Experts walk through the evidence for and against various theories, weighing what coins, inscriptions, and Roman accounts actually support against what is pure speculation. The film treats Cleopatra as a working head of state managing a superpower on her doorstep, and leaves her final resting place as an open question archaeology has not yet settled.