The great beauty was Eugenia's only sin. A gift given to her without her consent, destined to shape the course of her existence. "For the poor, even beauty is a curse," Mahi often declared, embittered by the hardships of her refugee life. However, when the well-off Theophilos enters her daughter's life, she begins to reconsider her views.

He falls madly, completely in love with her. She loves him with the longing and passion of her seventeen years. But the Greco-Italian war, which breaks out before they can enjoy their love, leaves her stranded in his homeland. There, she becomes the target of her in-laws, especially the eldest, Evanthia, and the powerful local political leader, unprepared for what awaits her. Her only and unexpected support comes from her mother-in-law, Anna.

As the years go by and the dictates of the times shape their lives, hatred and jealousy arm the hand of Fate, sowing destruction. Three innocent souls are swept away by its violent wind, crying out their lament as they scatter to different corners of Greece, into the embrace of "mother" Frederica.

The story of an absolute love in turbulent times. When beauty is considered a sin and the actions and words of people rival the brutality of the battlefields, anything can happen.