One lovely spring day, a hillside suddenly splits open with a mighty rumble. Hades (Erik Thomson), the god of the underworld, rides out of the cleft earth on a chariot and kidnaps the beautiful Persephone (Andrea Croton), daughter of the goddess Demeter (Sarah Wilson). The two quickly disappear in a cloud of blinding dust and smoke. Hearing the awful rumbling some distance away, Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) arrives just in time to see the hillside seal itself back