Her long dark hair fluttered in the wind, and her gait was tired. The boat was rocking in the cool waves, all that was left was to sink into it. And there will be no return to her old life. The heroine of the novel, Alex Fielding, wants to know more about her mother’s past, but she carefully hides it: it is only known that she grew up in a small town on the island of Crete and moved to London in her youth. Traveling around Crete, Alex arrives in the village of Plaka, where a friend of her mother’s relative still lives. The village is unremarkable. One of the many settlements lost on Greek lands. Mountains, the blue of the sea, and through this blue you can see a small island that bashfully keeps its pain. What role did this island play in the life of her ancestors and what secrets does this seemingly prosperous life hide?..