SMYRNA 1913. Margi, a British informant, feels the fingers of her Turkish pursuer tightening around her neck, her breath being cut off. Her eleven-year-old daughter Dido, with the strange eyes that everyone mocks and fears, is placed under the protection of the Levantine Edward, a collaborator of the British Secret Service, along with her brother. He will perceive her exceptional intelligence and will undertake to provide her, over the coming years, with all the tools that will transform her into a valuable spy, while simultaneously trying to hide the unholy feeling that is born for his protégé.
The day of fire and destruction will mark Dido forever. Carrying heavy losses in her luggage, she will take the path of refuge, creating a new life in Greece, a place plagued by its own problems.
A plate that broke on the journey to the new homeland will remind everyone that what breaks can be mended and what is destroyed can be rebuilt from scratch.
A novel flooded with the hedonistic sighs of Smyrna before the Catastrophe, the whispers of the secret services that operated there at the time, and the love that can be born from two eyes of different colors.