Following Troy’s defeat and with her city in ruins, Hecuba, portrayed by Katharine Hepburn and the former queen to King Priam, is dressed in mourning while awaiting the Greek victors' decision regarding her future—and that of her daughter Cassandra (Geneviève Bujold), Hector’s widow Andromache (Vanessa Redgrave) and her child, and Helen (Irene Papas), who instigated these troubles with Menelaus (Patrick Magee) eager …