Saint Petersburg, October 1917. Duchess Elena Alexeyevna is struggling to bring into the world the child she is carrying. Outside, the voices of the furious crowd can be heard. The Bolsheviks have flooded the streets, destroying everything that represents Tsarist Russia. Alone and helpless, the duchess must fight for her life and the life of her child, finding a way to escape their wrath. Her journey will take her to Budapest and later to Paris. Jean Jacques de Richelieu will offer her a life filled with wealth and comforts, and she will compromise.

However, when love knocks on her door, Elena will surrender without thinking of her position and heritage. The fallen prince will sweep her away and will consent to unholy acts. But nothing in life goes unpunished, in these years and the ones to come...

Athens, today. Electra has always known, but she ignored the signs. The truth, however, was searching for a way to emerge through labyrinthine paths into the light. Fateful coincidences and well-hidden secrets will confront her with what she feared most to face. What ties her to the past and what fateful mistakes made her a pawn of it?

An astonishing story that begins in Saint Petersburg during the era of the Tsars and aristocrats, filled with mystery, twists, and revelations, and reaches the present day, where a woman seeks her roots and the truth through a battle steeped in the mistakes and passions of her ancestors...