"The Great Chimera" is a detailed psychological portrait. The author tackles a female character and systematically analyzes her. The story of Marina, a young French woman who falls in love, gets married, and follows her husband to Syros, to his ancestral home in Episkopi. There she lives under the heavy, disapproving shadow of her mother-in-law. As Marina ties her fate to her husband's ships, every emotional upheaval she experiences has strange consequences on their lives. When the financial ruin, linked to the heroine's mental decay, arrives, everything enters the vicious cycle of love and death.