A prayer for the Old Silvers, a story of unforgettable homelands and unforgettable loves
Caesarea, Sinasos, Smyrna, and Pontus, during the harsh years of the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the population exchange: the canvas on which the love story of Sevasti Chatziavramoglou and Elmer Alexander Carter is embroidered.
By Sevasti's side, her mother and sister, the fragile Makrina and the fate-marked Elisso, will pay a heavy blood toll and be called upon to overcome tragic dead ends by making life-and-death decisions.
However, the dominant element is the transcendent love that opens doors in the stone-paved courtyards of Anatolia, on the wild coasts of the Atlantic, and in the calm waters of the Aegean, which will nullify distances and leave its indelible marks on time.
Eighty years later, it attracts Elsa, who makes a journey to ancestral lands carrying with her the diary of her grandmother Sevasti, and Alex, who seeks the traces of Professor Elmer Alexander Carter. Two people from such different worlds that one would say they couldn't even share a common glance at the rock-carved monastery of the Smiling Virgin, in the otherworldly Monastery of the Old Silvers...