A small province, dominated by the man and the mother-in-law. Girls, who from a young age dream of marriage and evolve into oppressed women, exhausted from work and bitter. In this society, Emilia will find herself, leaving the capital in 1937, when she agrees to marry the musician and songwriter Damos. In his village, where locals and refugees coexist after the Exchange, the majority of the inhabitants will treat her with suspicion and call her "the City Girl." There she will meet and bond with Sonia, the famous bridal dressmaker, Katina, betrayed by her fiancé, young Anita, who is forced to marry a man she does not love due to a youthful folly, and Nina, who has the guts to live her life as she wants.

She has been married for a week when the fire that destroyed her sisters in Pontus ruins her life again. Damos abandons her to his parents and goes to Thessaloniki. However, the war that is coming will drastically change all their lives and overturn many established norms.
The first stirrings of resistance from women suffocating in the provincial society in which they live, where a man's word is an Unwritten law.