In view of the displacement of Armenians from Trabzon in June 1915, a girl who seems to have been painted by God himself takes refuge in a stranger's house. In Ordu, another girl from a wealthy Greek family is preparing for her wedding and struggling to envision a future with a man she barely knows.
The charismatic, devout, and guardian of the morals of the time, Galinos Filonidis, is torn between two women; he is tested in front of his ideas; he faces brutality and hatred; he is shattered and sets a life goal to avenge the one who caused him great pain.
In the background of the narrative, Pontus is sketched until the population exchange; the homogenization of races with religion as the connecting link and alibi; the fear, intolerance, and nationalism sown by the Young Turks and later by the Kemalists; daily life in the early years of the Soviet Union; the persecution of Greeks under Stalin; the labor camps in Siberia and the steppes of Kazakhstan with unbearable heat in the summer and severe cold in the winter; the desires, passions, and sufferings of the Pontians.
And all, through the multifaceted journey that life writes and the journey that is written for life, seem like flames and movements of the Pontian dance Serra, the dance of fire. On the occasion of the memorial day for the 100 years since the Pontian Genocide (1919-2019), the historical novel by Giannis Kalpouzos, SERRA.