Aléka was ten years old when she discovered her file at the Kavala orphanage. There was no last name next to her name. But there was the word "illegitimate" to describe her, and the unknown word "prostitute" for her mother. She had left Aléka, a six-year-old child, at the orphanage, without giving any signs of life again, many years later. Aléka spent her whole life struggling to prove that a rose can grow from a thorn. No matter how much she was hurt, no matter how much she was rejected, she always had a golden heart full of love for everyone. The father she never knew always lived in her soul, along with her longing to meet him someday.

A constant struggle for survival, with shocking truths of life in the years of a wounded Greece. Aléka, in adverse conditions, in poverty, loneliness, abandonment, and all kinds of difficulties, will fight to survive and fulfill all her dreams; among them, to find her father again.

Everyone who knew her had the same thing to say about her: Aléka was not an ordinary person. She was an angel who fell to Earth by mistake, a woman who only knew how to love...