'Stuprum':  A modern adaptation
Based on the novel 'Titus Andronicus' by William Shakespeare

Brief overview of the plot:

Titus Andronicus returns to Rome after successfully defeating the 'Goths' (Germans) in battle.  As a rite of passage dictated by the State-Titus is forced to bring back the Goth Queen and her sons to face trial.  The blood of the eldest son must be spilt in recompense for all the sons of Rome which lives had been taken.  The Goth Queen (Tamora) pleads for her sons' life.  Titus is unaffected by her murmurs, as he is so dedicated to Rome and its doctrines:  He therefore proceeds with the ceremony of killing the eldest son (Alarbus).
Titus is elected Emperor of Rome by popular demand.  He declines the offer, as he does not agree with the birth right of Emperor being broken.  The heirs-Saturninus and Bassianus state their claims to the Tribune.   They have equal support. In an attempt to be in Titus’ favour (as he is courting Lavinia-Titus’ only daughter) Bassianus declines the position.
Saturninus is heralded as Emperor, and asks for Lavinias’ hand in marriage, in a covert attack toward his brother.   Lavinia and Bassianus flee the scene to elope. Saturninus is enraged, and spurs Titus on to find them. Titus pursues the couple, where he is met in the court yard by one of his sons-Mutius. Mutius refuses to move and Titus kills him.
Titus returns to the senate where Saturninus is distraught with anger. In an act of revenge Saturninus marries Tamora. In so doing, Tamora sedates the newly appointed emperor with her words of wisdom; whilst plotting the revenge of her son, and the demise of the Andronicae. She asks for a double wedding celebration for her and Lavinia, in the form of a hunt.
In the forest Bassianus is henceforth murdered in front of Lavinia, and she is then taken away to be raped and defiled-hands cut off and tongue cut out (so that she is unable to tell anyone of her torturers identities) at the hands of Demetrius and Chiron (Tamoras’ sons).
Aaron (Tamoras’ Moore lover) then tells the Emperor that his brother Bassianus has been killed, after he lures two of Titus’ sons to the ditch where he has pushed the heir to the throne. Saturninus puts the two sons up for trial for the murder of Bassianus.
Marcus finds Lavinia after she has been defiled and brings her to Titus as he prays at the steps of the Senate for his sons pardon.
Aaron takes full advantage of this and goes to Titus’ house and asks him to give him a ‘hand’ in recompense for his sons lives. Whilst Marcus and Lucius argue over who should cut his own hand off, Titus gives Aaron his mighty hand.
This act of faith is to no avail. Titus is returned his hand and his two son’s heads. Just as all seems to be lost-Lavinia finds a way in which to write in the sand. She alludes to her rape, and her betrayers. Titus promises to avenge her and her brother’s ill treatment. The Andronicae concoct a plan, and set its wheels in motion.  
They lure Tamora and her two sons (Demetrius and Chiron) to the Andronicae family home on the Goths assumption that Titus is going mad (the Queen yearns to reap even more pain and havoc on Titus and his family, and sees this as a surreptitious unfolding). Titus sends Tamora away, in the pretence that he wants to talk to ‘Rape’ and ‘Murder’-the symbols which Demetrius and Chiron have used as a guise. After gaining their trust he kills and bleeds them, before making them into a pie.
Titus serves the pie (with the two Goth princes in it) at a banquet he is hosting the next day. He feeds Tamora her sons, as well as members of the Senate and Goths. He then kills his daughter, and shortly after Tamora. Saturninus is blissfully unaware of all of the misconduct of which Tamora has been manufacturing, and in an act of furry kills Titus. At which point Lucius walks in to be greeted by the body of his sister and Saturninus in the act of killing his father-he therefore kills Saturninus. Lucius separates Aaron from his illegitimate child (Tamoras’ baby which she directed to kill), and returns him to the Goths to be tortured.