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The matchmaking of Julia Venio with the landowner Giorgis Provios was destined to become the great news of the whole plain of Larissa. After a few years, the epilogue of her marriage was sealed with the murder of her husband and her three-year-old daughter. She, having been sentenced to death, remains silent, accepting her fate and, consequently, her guilt.Six days before her execution, the young journalist Alexandra Gika tries to interview her in Averoff Prison, where she is being held; at her side is the lawyer Dimitros Adzalinas. The faint memories of the condemned woman, who seems to be waking up from her slumber, will take them back five years, to the post-civil war era in December 1949. Her narrative gives rise to vivid suspicions in both of them that there is a "side story", a second explanation of events whose acceptance and proof may exonerate her. But the time they have left is short.

Assumptions, connections of events, associations, decisions and a race to prove her innocence, while the hands of the clock have already started counting down. The facts justify any shred of optimism.

But the truth has not yet revealed its final face...