The matchmaking of Ioulia Veniou with the landowner Giorgikis Provios was destined to become the big news of the entire plain of Larissa. A few years later, the epilogue of her marriage is sealed with the murder of her husband and her three-year-old daughter. She, having been sentenced to death, remains silent, accepting her fate and, by extension, her guilt.

The young journalist Alexandra Gika tries to interview her inside Averoff Prison, where she is being held; by her side is the lawyer Dimitros Atzalinas.

The faint memories of the condemned woman, who seems to be waking up from a lethargy, will take them back five years, to the post-civil war era in December 1949. Her narration sparks vivid suspicions in both of them that there is a "side story," a second explanation of the events that, if accepted and proven, could exonerate her. But the time they have left is limited.

Assumptions, connections of events, associations, decisions, and a race against time to prove her innocence, while the clock's hands have already started counting down. The events justify every shred of optimism.

However, the truth has not yet revealed its final form...

• This is a captivating novel that explores silence and the search for truth in a dramatic setting.
• It combines a detective mystery with historical elements from post-war Greece.
• The suspenseful quest for justice against time keeps the reader constantly alert.

"The wife and child murderer Ioulia Proviou, who was unanimously sentenced to death by firing squad by the Mixed Jury Court of Larissa, remains unrepentant to this day. It is certain that, if she had the opportunity, she would commit her horrific double crime again. She is to be executed on the 21st of this month. This decision has rewarded the whole of Greece with breaths of happiness."