1816-1829. Patras, Tripolitsa, Nafplio, Messolonghi... Since Angelis found himself imprisoned in Sahin Aga's chicken coop, hatred nested in his soul like a venomous snake. During his explosive and simultaneously enchanting journey, he enters the service of a grumpy and miserly merchant who sells you fireflies for a lamp. He is surrounded by the leaden cloud of slavery and the humiliation of the rayahs. He joins with Kerasia, where dreams dive and swim in her presence. He encounters local leaders, peasants, and comrades who are more than brothers and a woman in the hour of battle, while a frightened Turkish boy clings to him. On his path are also two old men who scrutinize the motive for everything, as well as the sweet and poisonous essence of the "self," the beguiling Aspasia, devilish foreigners, local adventurers, the thirty-six-year silent Simeon, a horseman who saves captive Turkish girls, and the greatest enemy of the free man, fear. Angelis experiences the grandeur and the dark side of the blood-soaked '21, demolishing myths and revealing hidden truths. He embraces the fire of the uprising, transforms savagery into hope, redemption, and sweetness, and shouts: "I want to be a rayah to no one. A rayah to nothing!"