Her name was Angelika Nikli. Beautiful like the emerging Aphrodite herself...

Her father, a persecuted Maniot, victim of poverty and need, sold her to the wealthy "Tobacconist", the Zakynthian count Salamon. He would renounce his wife and children, and threaten to disinherit his legitimate son Roberto, because he sided with the Democrats who fought for the union of the Ionian Islands with Greece...

From the unholy union of the elderly count with his young mistress, three sons would be born. The first would become a great poet. The second, an important political figure of the Ionian Islands. And the third, a posthumous son of the count, would lose all his privileges... Years later, he would fight to reclaim the name and fortune that his two older brothers deprived him of. He would also fight for the lost honor of his mother, in a trial that would make history in the Ionian Islands. The Trial of the Solomon Brothers.