With Thrace as a backdrop and love as a pretext...
What is the connection between an ambitious diplomat and the Muslim inhabitants of Thrace? What common bond links the young daughter of an ambassador with a twelve-year-old girl from a minority village in Xanthi? Can an overwhelming love free souls and rooted religious beliefs?

On Good Friday, an accident disrupts the vacation plans of Ambassador Orestis Leousis and his family, as well as the Easter atmosphere in the home of the Greek consul in Smyrna. Everyone is faced with little Melek, who emerges unscathed from the wreckage and with her stubborn silence, leads them through the mountainous roads of Thrace in search of the reason for her journey to the shores of Asia Minor.

An atmospheric novel that enchants with its language and the images that effortlessly emerge from its pages. A timely book that invents its own myth, highlighting the current reality, raising issues of cultural identity, language, religion, and the question of coexistence with the different that lives and moves beside us. Oresivian tobacco growers and professionals in international diplomacy live for a few days around the enigmatic Melek, so different and yet so similar to each other, changing roads, places, ways of life and language, but never forgetting. They are connected by the common journey, our journey in life: love and death.