This book presents the true story of a woman and her family. Each chapter features a character. The story begins in the early 1900s with the literally lightning-struck love between a composer and aristocrat from Naples and a unique, dynamic woman from the bourgeois society of Patras.

Inside a theater designed by Tsiller, after a light opera, in a "cosmopolitan and chatty" Patras, as Virginia Woolf wrote. And from Patras to Syros and then to Athens. The Asia Minor Catastrophe, World War II, post-war Athens. The family grows and evolves. New original characters are added. Leftists... royalists, and others, mostly people of music.

Marika Kotopouli, Gina Bachauer, Maria Callas, the Patriarch of Alexandria, and other personalities parade alongside, more or less. The story of this family could give birth to many novels. In a vivid way, the author records her memories, feeling that this is how she repays a personal debt to her family.

A terrace in a house, a recipe notebook with beautiful slanted calligraphic letters, and many other small details give sounds and scents to the text. The characters, through the testimony of writing, come back to life, and with them a part of the history of Greece in the 20th century.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]