The enigmatic old woman from Smyrna, Rosa, and the powerful Ismail have lived for decades with the burden of a secret marked by the violence of the Asia Minor Catastrophe.
The collector's passion of an architect, an old photograph, and a wedding dress stained with blood become the catalyst for their story to be unearthed from the past, along with pieces of the presence and actions of Hellenism in Asia Minor. Smyrna, Ayvalik, Mytilene, Athens, Istanbul, the smell of antique shops, the allure of travel, the challenge of love and mystery, this is the labyrinthine journey that the heroes and readers follow, to ultimately realize that the small stories of people are the ones that seal the grand History.