What connection can there be between a heinous crime in a mansion on Prince's Island and an indifferent accident in today's Athens? Or was it not an accident?

The link between the two stories is Danae. A translator, influenced by the detective fiction she has been immersed in for a long time, sees murders everywhere. Even an unfortunate incident that takes place in Ianos evolves into a fixation for her.

The latest novel she is translating is set on one of the islands of the Sea of Marmara, in Istanbul, and it is this that fuels her obsessions and leads her down uncharted paths...

As an informal partner in her adventure, she finds Nikiforos, a young and inexperienced detective from the Homicide Department.