Kayseri, Sinasos, Smyrna, and Pontus, in the stone years of the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the population exchange: the canvas on which the story of Sevasti Chatziavramoglou's love with Elmer Alexander Carter is embroidered.

Sevasti Chatziavramoglou's family will pay a heavy blood tax and will be called to overcome tragic dead ends by making life-and-death decisions. Murder will be the least a girl like Sevasti can do to save her loved ones, while Elmer will place his duty towards the orphaned Armenian children above his love.

Eighty years later, Elsa makes a journey to her ancestral lands carrying her grandmother Sevasti's diary and meets Alex who is searching for traces of Professor Elmer Alexander Carter. These two very different people will meet under the gaze of the Smiling Virgin Mary at the Old Asimi Monastery.

The second part of the trilogy about the unforgettable homelands and unforgettable loves carved by the wind on the rocks of Cappadocia under the watchful eye of the Smiling Virgin Mary at the Old Asimi Monastery.

My beloved homeland, my mountains and rivers, souls of my parents and grandparents, how can I worship you on foreign soil? Where shall I bow to your shadow, to which breeze shall I whisper your name so that it knows it? Which house will I find that carries the color of your voice, the brightness of your eyes, the touch of your hardworking hands!

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