The dramatic story of a Jewish family during the 20th century’s bleakest moments. The chronicle of a community crushed and reborn from its ruins. The tempestuous story of young Josif, told as a bed-night story, about the Thessaloniki fire of 1917. The flames envelop the Jewish neighbourhood. Benuta and her children are at home. Angelis, a young gypsy, saves them at the last moment. He takes them to the gypsy camp, away from the devastating fire, which destroys a large part of the city. A precious piece of jewellery is salvaged. An heirloom that connects people and events. Jews and gypsies. Two peoples with diverse worldviews and a common fate. War, Nazi atrocities, Auschwitz. The horror of the Holocaust. The odyssey of a bracelet.

KASTANIOTIS, 2006, 264, p.