Seraphina's Song

If I knew then dear reader what I know now I should have turned on my heels and left. But no instead I stood there transfixed on the beautiful image of Seraphina. In that moment my fate was sealed. Dionysos Mavroulis is a man without a future; a man who embraces destiny and risks everything for love. A refugee from Asia Minor he escapes Smyrna in 1922 disguised as an old woman. Alienated and plagued by feelings of remorse he spirals into poverty and seeks solace in the hashish dens around Piraeus. Hitting rock bottom he meets Aleko an accomplished bouzouki player. Recognising in the impoverished refugee a rare musical talent Aleko offers to teach him the bouzouki. Dionysos hope for a better life is further fuelled when he meets Seraphina -- the singer with the voice of a nightingale -- at Papazoglous Taverna. From the moment he lays eyes on her his fate is sealed. Set in Piraeus Greece during the 1920s and 30s Seraphinas Song is a haunting and compelling story of hope and despair and of a love stronger than death.