Petros, a Greek Immigrant, comes to America in the very early nineteen hundreds to start a new life. The story follows him from New York and his chance contact with Don Lucasio, a powerful man; to his move to California and courting his future wife, Minnie. The story is laced with much humor and some sadness, but you learn to know Petros and like him. At the end you feel as though you have lost a good friend. The novel encompasses the changing tides in the American social climate as well as the assimilation of the Greek peoples into American society.