Waiting for the Barbarians

About the show

On the border of an unnamed Empire, the Magistrate’s peaceful town is occupied by Colonel Joll’s Civil Guard, who torture captured nomads. The Magistrate helps a blinded and crippled barbarian girl return to her people, then is accused of treason, imprisoned, and tortured. After the Empire’s forces are defeated and withdraw, he urges the townspeople to survive the winter and wonders who the true barbarians are.