Hellenism of the diaspora, 1791-1913. Braila, Vienna, Constantinople, Antwerp. Against the backdrop of the rich mural of an era with no return and centered on the consequences brought by two major ecological disasters on the Danube River to nature and human life, 4 Greek women, 4 generations of the same family, 4 remarkable women share the same cell and the same despair over an entire century. Aikaterini Chatzigianni, the noblewoman. Natalia Patrikiou, the witch. Antonia Manolatou, the adaptive. Philomila Lapata, the proud. In Europe of the cultural changes of the 19th century and with a Greek state in its infancy, each heroine lives her own story with adventures, passions, duels, loves, dramas, and awareness, always with the common denominator of the search for the meaning of life. [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]