Costas Zervez, a handsome, lucky businessman and a favorite of women, has known all his life that you can and should marry only a fellow countrywoman. And any look of a man’s interest toward Pelagia—his neighbors’ daughter and the sister of his best friend—counts as an execution-worthy offense. But what if a marriage to the perfectly suitable Greek woman has long fallen apart with a crash, and a new meeting with Pelagia drives him mad with forbidden desire?