Novel that depicts with a great sensitivity of events that occurred in a small corner of Crete, through the lives of four generations of women. Takes us to the heart of the history of leprosy, history, family histories. A dream, to cry, to love. To discover a remarkably contrasting vividly the lepers lived before modern treatments. Anyone who has visited Greece, Crete, off the beaten path, beaches and tourist Mecca of archeology, find them instantly. Language fairly easy to read for a non-English.