 Cyrus and his betrothed were hoping to be taken safely to Calydon, but are betrayed by their traitorous  guide  Belus, attacked by horsemen on the beach and captured for the slave trade. Hercules was visiting his mother Alcmene and his wife and sons  graves. Bringing her grain to the market, his fist cheerfully bumps into Iolaus who was bringing the pig Penelope to the butcher. A hideous one-eyed hag offers Hercules money to spend some time with her. He attends Belus  slave sale just in time for the prize piece, oriental Oi-Lan and buys her for the grain s value, frees her and finds she s also on the way to save her lover Cyrus, who was in the lot just sold to Inias, for the Libyan games, but stolen back by Belus to sell them again there himself. They travel together, she remains rude and un-trusting first but saves him from a poisonous spider, proves as good a masseuse as she is at martial arts and says Cyrus helped her flee her father s palace. Cyrus escapes, defeating Belus s strong man Mudo, goes looking for Oi-Lan, catches up, sees them kissing and knocks him off a cliff with a tree log, only to get both chained again by the slave traders, till Hercules climbs up and sells Belus instead to... .