In the second month of spring, the open meadows are inviting to all women in Cyprus. In a town where devotees of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, look forward to the ceremony in her honour, they have been raised to put their hopes in her. They say that her benevolence is rare, for she is known to favour only a few worshippers – but this spring is like no other. For only once, the townsfolk know that the goddess...