Long before she became the judge Greece loves to hate (and Germany loves to love) on Greece's Top Hoplite, seventeen-year-old Effie Makri was not quite 'just another' high school drop out …
Effie is fifteen when her father keels over in a vat of olives and her mother tells her it's time to ditch school and start contributing to the family's bottom line. Two years later, she's on her way home from the annual Fisherman's Festival, when a stranger steps out of the dark and shows her something she doesn't want to see.
Soon Effie is thrown into the village's spotlight. Everybody wants to know her story. Everybody includes Nikos Lemonis, the local police detective's son, a guy hellbent on following in his father's footsteps. Effie's had a crush on him forever, and it's looking like the feeling could be mutual.
But Effie's entire future, reputation, and new relationship depends on her answer to one important question: Do you see the man from that night?