Alexis Fielding wants to know more about his mother’s past, but Sophia carefully hides it: it is only known that she grew up in a small Cretan town and moved to London in her youth. While traveling around Crete, Alexis comes to the village of Plaka, where she A friend of Sofia’s relative still lives. Not far into the sea, the girl sees the island of Spinalonga - in the past there was a colony for leprosy patients and lepers... What role did this island play in the life of her ancestors and what secrets does the apparently prosperous life hide?..