Athens, year 1882. A promise is made to a dying former police officer, who is tormented by a secret, and as a result, the file of an old unsolved murder case is reopened. A woman, a Greek of the Diaspora, returns to Athens from Constantinople after a twenty-year absence, causing a stir in the capital, and along with her daughter, disrupts social balances and unsettles an entire household. A scandal, with tragic consequences, brings to light truths that destroy the image of perfection of a great family from the post-revolutionary years of Greece. A lovestruck police officer, with honor and integrity, with a word-contract and proverbial kindness, saves an Athenian woman from certain disgrace. In a place with a significant role in events and history, the choices and mistakes of the heroes, hidden desires, lies, unspoken thoughts, and memory as a curse have their own weight in the narrative. A story where anxiety, anger, rage, love, surprise, emotional passions, repentance, and finally, the primordial desire for catharsis as a need of the soul coexist. With the weight of responsibility for the people and the history of Athens during the period from 1880 to 1900, Philomila Lapata delivers to readers the third part of the historical trilogy THE DAUGHTERS OF GREECE in a standalone novel that is read breathlessly