影片故事延续前作，路奇乌斯（保罗·麦斯卡 Paul Mescal 饰）童年时亲眼目击受万人景仰的英雄马克西蒙斯死于舅舅之手，多年后已长大成人的他，在暴君的铁腕统治下，被迫进入竞技场为生存而战。心中充满怒火的路奇乌斯，眼见罗马帝国的未来岌岌可危，决心讨回本属于他的权力和荣誉 ，还罗马人民一个辉煌的罗马。
Alec lives under a repressive society that monitors his every movement, while working at the central avatar store where customers can design and be their idealised online persona; a symbol of the EyeLight based technological revolution that Alec viscerally resists. His isolation is punctured by the arrival of Jade, an equally rebellious figure but one who plays the system far more strategically. Their unfolding forbidden relationship will push the two of them to the very brink. Meanwhile, the politically motivated gameshow, known as ‘The Draw’, rapidly increases in popularity, ominously evolving into an all too real hunt which threatens the desperate contestants′ lives all in the name of entertainment.
