When the official army enters Kalopetra, Fotini is nursing her newborn second child. She urges her daughter, Iliana, to hide with the older children, while she and the other women are herded onto trucks. Weeks later, the soldiers return for the children, but a different fate awaits them…
Fotini is taken to a prison on Chios, where she befriends Markella and her wise young son, Nikos. When, after months of imprisonment, the two women are separated, Fotini vows to search not only for her own child but for Markella’s as well.