After a civil battle that leaves two brothers dead, a grieving sister resolves to bury the one whom the new ruler has outlawed from burial, thereby setting private piety against public decree. Her covert act provokes legal confrontation, debate with kin and elders, and intervention by a prophetic voice, and the chorus frames the unfolding moral crisis. The drama examines tensions between familial obligation and state authority, the collision of divine and human law, and the tragic consequences that follow when conscience and power collide.