In 1798, during his journey to Egypt, Napoleon Bonaparte "hid" for a while in Ierapetra, Crete, something that few knew and even fewer ever learned. Next to him, as always, was Jean Lignier, his most loyal officer and childhood friend from the neighborhoods of Corsica, where they grew up together. In March of the same year, Sophia Siniori, a wonderful woman, in the whirlwind of an unexpected, fateful love, is smuggled on a stormy night from Crete to Mani, initially, and then to Penteli, to end up in Paris, accompanied by Bernardin, a retired officer.

More than two centuries later, Sophie Lignier, a girl of today in the capital city of France, on the day she bids farewell to her mother, Liberté, for the great journey, discovers a long-hidden secret in an old painting in the living room of her family home. Her steps will lead her to the southernmost corner of Europe, Crete, and then to Penteli, to a deserted tower, where through her eyes and soul, the two so distant worlds, separated by centuries, will unite in an almost metaphysical way, with the crack of the unfulfilled gaping within them. And perhaps in this way, they will be redeemed and freed from the bonds of an eternal longing.