Greece, 1970. Twenty-year-old Melina Freris is down to her last drachmas. Stitching her life back together on the small island of Lifnos is hard. Until a warm British shopkeeper tosses her a lifeline. And a resistance fighter she keeps running into gives her something other than grief to think about.

Things would be looking up, really. If not for the mayor of Lifnos, who has decided she might be useful. And the visions Melina has always called overactive imagination, that might just be a family secret—like yiayia Smaragda's baklava recipe.