While a dying elderly philosopher recites the words of Agamemnon in glorious sites connected with Greece's ancient history, an archaeologist and his assistant are working a site on a Greek island. They are joined by the archaeologist's daughter, who has a series of romantic adventures while her imperturbable, serious folks calmly go about their work of exhuming the past. She soon has a liaison with an Italian journalist whose interest in her father's work is difficult to countenance until it becomes clear that he could be involved in the lucrative but illegal business of buying and selling antiquities. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide