THRACE, 1895-1913. In the magical city of Xanthi, renowned seamstresses with silver thimbles dressed the Thracian women in the latest fashion. And all around, tobacco fields with the golden-leafed plant that filled the tobacco merchants with wealth. Mansions with painted ceilings, the mountain with its legends... Life could be beautiful if it weren't for the fire sown by the komitadjis. In the wealthy mansions, in the humble stone-built houses of Samakov, in a strange monastery, the characters of this story sew and unsew their lives.

Kerasto: The seamstress. To preserve a fabric identity, she learns to stitch. But heavy vows pierced her heart, and when that man entered her cave, she couldn't subdue him with the charms of a woman, because she had shaved her head, smeared soot on her face, and he thought she was a boy.

Mitsos Yavasoglou: The rebel tobacco merchant. His great passion was tobacco and the freedom of Thrace. When he was wounded in that deal with the smugglers, he thought his wound would heal quickly. But that seamstress crippled him with her silver needle.

A novel that could be a subversive fairy tale, with noblemen, ladies, and beasts who sew their passions, loves, secrets, and betrayals with strong stitches into their lives. There in Thrace: Xanthi, Yeni Kioi, Dedeagach, Gumuljina, Adrianou...