Ethiopia,1960. The Greek community. Isavella grows up like a princess under the roof of her father, a powerful figure in local society. At her eighteenth birthday party she is approached by Dimitris, who comes from the Greek community of southern Ethiopia. Tongues start wagging in the conservative local society. Dimitris proposes that they elope but with the agreement that he won’t even touch her hand until she wants him to. She remains trapped, almost cold. But all their plans fall through. Thirty-five years later, in Athens, the family is in decline. Isavella is a widow. Dimitris returns, a sick man, and rents an apartment directly opposite Isavella’s without her knowing it. He watches her night and day, his passion haunted by a secret that concerns Lake Alemaya…