When Trisha receives a mysterious letter to her Liverpool home it opens a decades’ old mystery drawing her back into her family’s forgotten past the horrors of war and a small island off the coast of Greece… Eighty years earlier on the island of Milos Dora is dreaming of a better life free from the oppression of the occupying army and closer to home the brutal rule of her father an infamous horse breeder. Then a German cargo ship is bombed in the harbour killing dozens of the men on board. The islanders trawl the waters for spoilage from the wreckage - finding among the debris a badly injured man who may just hold the awful truth about what happened. Dora soon finds this man under her care and it changes her life forever introducing her to the possibility of love and freedom for the first time… But Dora cannot know as she nurses the stranger back to health that her actions will have devastating consequences for her beloved island. Consequences that will last for generations…
