The charming and unparalleled grandmother Nora, Vali, her granddaughter, and Vaia, Cleopatra's beautiful maid. Walking through the alleys and neighborhoods of the historic city, we listen to the whisper coming from the distant desert and with the feluccas we wander among the reeds of the Nile.
The Ptolemies, Cleopatra, and the Romans pass before our eyes. We encounter the melancholic gaze of Cavafy and the nobility of the Greeks during the years they reigned there as cotton merchants. We experience the battles of the Second World War and hear the cannons of El Alamein. We wander through the mansions of the Greeks, those they abandoned when everything was nationalized after Nasser.
We are moved by the twists that life brought to the family of Leon Chrysos, whose members were forced to leave Alexandria, leaving their wealth behind, to ultimately find love and happiness in Athens. And with a cosmopolitan passage through Switzerland, New York, and Mykonos, in the traces of a detective adventure, we are transported to the present, experiencing thrilling romances, historical moments, tears, and joys. All this along with Greek Alexandrians, past and present…