There is another side to Greece, beside the hot, bare, Aegean Islands so popular with tourists. This side, nearer to Italy, I was, by chance, destined to visit. How this happened and the love I grew for one particular Island, forms the basis of this book. The lack of a reliable map of said Island, with a secret interior covered by olive trees, is another part of the story, as are the people and events that thus swam into my focus.