Ali and Iphigenia arrive in Erzurum. Ali presents Iphigenia as his fiancee. Seeing her, his mother tell her son that she is pregnant and should marry her. The caravan with uprooted residents of Amisos continues its course with the Turks hitting and mocking them. Pavlidis understands that he is a burden and begs Eugenia to let him go. Those who manage to survive reach the deserted village but the Turks re-raise them and continue to roam the wilderness without water and food on the pretext that they are being returned to Amisos. Giorgos Pavlidis is helpless behind - Eugenia breaks up unable to stay with her husband. Miltos and Themis try to save their father and reunite the family.
May 1895. Our story begins when the family of George Pavlides engages their 12-year-old son, Miltos, with the 9-year-old daughter of Michalis Nikolaidis, Ifigenia. The attacks of fanatical Turks will force the two families to flee their homeland. The two youngsters will meet again in Istanbul 11 years later. Unaware of the family relationship that binds them, they instantly fall in love. The two lovers try to live their love, while being dragged by the whirlwind of historical events of the time.
