Hellenism of the diaspora, 1791-1913. Vienna, Constantinople, Antwerp. Against the backdrop of the rich frescoes of an era without return and with the consequences of two major ecological disasters on the Danube River on nature and human life, four Greek women, four generations of the same family, four great women share the same cell and the same despair over a whole century. Aikaterini Chatziyianni, the aristocrat. Natalia Patrikiou, the witch. Antonia Manolatou, the adaptable. Philomela Lapata, the proud. In the 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 self-awareness, always with the common denominator of the search for the meaning of life.