Chios, 1822. In old and difficult times, Isidoros' family is scattered and lost after the complete destruction of the island by the Turks. In Syros, where he and his sisters have taken refuge, thanks to the care of a Catholic nun and a Psarian fire ship captain, they manage to survive and return to their homeland, to what remains standing, to start again from scratch.

Years later, on the same Cycladic island, Nikolaos, Isidoros' nephew, will find love in the face of Iasmi, a girl enveloped in an aura of mystery. The two young people will experience absolute love, against a fate that lurks harsh and relentless.

A novel that takes the reader to the first half of a turbulent 19th century, to the years of fog, to the sea routes of the Aegean and the Cyclades, from the alleys of Pyrgi, the port and the castle of Chora, to the cosmopolitan Ermoupoli and the mystical Smyrna with the colors and aromas of the East.