SMYRNA 1913. Margi, the informant of the British, feels the fingers of her Turkish pursuer tightening around her throat, her breath being cut off. Her eleven-year-old daughter Dido, with the strange eyes that everyone mocks and fears, is placed under the protection of the Levantine Edward, a collaborator of the British Secret Service. He will perceive her special intelligence and take on the task of providing her with all the tools that will transform her into a valuable spy over the next few years, while also trying to hide the forbidden feeling that arises for his protege.
The day of fire and destruction will forever mark Dido. Carrying heavy losses in her luggage, she will embark on the road of refuge, creating a new life in Greece, in a place plagued by its own problems.
A broken plate on the journey to the new homeland will remind everyone that what breaks can be repaired and what is destroyed can be rebuilt from scratch.
A novel flooded with the pleasurable sighs of Smyrna before the Catastrophe, the whispers of the secret services that operated there at the time, and the love that can be born from two eyes of different colors.