The 19th century is coming to an end, Greece is torn apart by the problems left behind by four centuries of slavery and seventy years of miserable politics, Crete remains under Turkish occupation, and Eleftherios Venizelos has no resemblance to the leader we know today - and he doesn't want to.
Because the center of his life is neither law nor politics nor his firstborn newborn son. The center of his life is his great, absolute love for his wife, Maria - and when he loses her, he will go mad, cut off all communication with his family, spend days and nights at the cemetery and plant cypresses there so he can see her from afar, he will wander the streets of Chania muttering.
This is a story about how a broken person can rise again. And then lift a country in his hands, without caring about anything or anyone in order to achieve his goal.
A goal that may have been very different from what everyone today thinks they understand.