It is late winter of 1950 and Safir Turan-an immigrant living a lonely life in Brooklyn, NY-has just learned of her father's death in distant Istanbul when she is contacted by a wealthy American claiming he knows her family.
Senator Weldon Scott takes Safir on a riveting journey to a time before she was born; to the remote and desolate Taurus Mountains of a declining Ottoman Empire wracked by World War I.
Safir struggles with the truth...