Calliope Dallari, later Vrakas, knew from a young age the ache of waiting. With a father and brothers at sea, this island-born girl quickly learned that for a family to endure, it sometimes had to be tested, even fractured. At eighteen, she left Leros and set off for Australia with hesitation, anxiety, and the quiet comfort that, if needed, she could always return. She never did… In the garment factories of the fifth continent, she tested her limits, until the threads of her life intertwined with those of Giorgos, the man who would become her husband. But before they could marry, before Calliope could begin to dream of the life she deserved in her new homeland, she would first have to face one more personal Calvary…