The King of Thebes, Creon, forbids the burial of Polyneices, who led a foreign army against his homeland. Antigone, the sister of the deceased and the daughter-in-law of Creon, violates the order and is sentenced to death. The son and wife of Creon commit suicide, and he himself seeks to find death. The conflict between moral law and state law in Sophocles' most glorious tragedy.