Mid-20th century. The two heroines, Vasiliki and Ilaria, have taken their life paths to different points on the horizon. Vasiliki in America, full of love, wealth, and an interesting life, meets a stranger who fascinates her and is determined to follow him to the ends of the earth. Their love is entangled with a golden cross engraved with a letter. Like a heroine of an ancient tragedy, Vasiliki swears revenge for the unjust loss of her childhood friend, without suspecting who might be the cause... Ilaria in Thessaloniki, struggling with harsh reality, becomes privy to a shocking secret that starts from Western Macedonia, passes through Smyrna and the Asia Minor Catastrophe, and reaches her home. Everything she believed is overturned, and she must find the courage to render justice. Who are all these people balancing on the Meridians of Life, and where will their endless journey lead them? THE SECOND PART OF THE BELOVED TRILOGY