Caesarea, Sinasos, Smyrna, and Pontus, during the bleak years of the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the population exchanges: the canvas upon which the story of Sebastia Hatzhiavramoglou's love for Elmer Alexander Carter is embroidered.

By Sebastia's side, her mother and sister, the fragile Makrina and the fate-marked Elisso, will pay a heavy blood price and will be faced with tragic dead ends, making choices of life and death.

Yet the transcendent love dominates, opening doors to the stone-paved courtyards of Anatolia, to the wild shores of the Atlantic, and to the tranquil waters of the Aegean, which will obliterate distances and leave its indelible marks on time.

Eighty years later, it draws Elsa, who embarks on a journey to her ancestral lands carrying with her her grandmother Sebastia's diary, and Alex, who seeks the traces of Professor Elmer Alexander Carter. Two people from such different worlds that one might say they couldn’t even cast a common glance at the hewn rock monastery of the smiling Madonna, at the otherworldly Monastery of Old Silver…

A story of unforgettable homelands and unforgettable loves.