SYNOPSI: It is the story of the daughter of Oedipus, King of Thebes, to whom after his exile his sons Eteocles and Polynices lose the throne, who agree to alternate to rule, but when Polynices claims his turn, Eteocles does not admit it. Polineces then returns allied with the Argive army, and is defeated before the walls of Thebes, the two brothers dying in a fratricidal fight. Creon (uncle of the two dead brothers and Antigone), assumes as the new king and decrees that Eteocles be buried and the body of Polinices be left in the open as an incarnation for traitors. Antígona decides to bury her brother Polinices but is discovered. Creon condemns her to be buried alive in the tomb of her ancestors despite the pleas of her son Hemon, Antigone's boyfriend. Tiresias, the old soothsayer, after warning about the need to reverse this law on pain of losing his son, succeeds in making Creon retract. But it is too late because Antigone hangs herself, and Hermon, who comes to save her, does not arrive in time and immolates himself. The death of Hemon then motivates the suicide of his own mother, Eurydice. Shortly before, her other son, Meneceo, had also died. Creon pays for his tyranny with loneliness.