A family living in Greece at the time of the construction of the Parthenon and another family, thousands of years later, eeking out a living at the base of the Acropolis. Life in present day Athens had become a series of duties and obligations for Akil until Draco, a stray dog, visited his shop in the Plaka. The repercussions of the meeting of a man and this dog would unfold in unforeseen ways that would impact the lives around him.As happened every night, Draco climbed the hill and his dreams transported him thousands of years into the past, before the Parthenon was built, where another dog, Daria, lived in that place. The narrative takes the reader to Greece's Golden Age, in which Daria would scamper up the hill to keep up with Adelino, a stone cutter working on the new temple, and his son Tiro. The lives of Pheidias, the architect of the Parthenon, Adelino and Diana his wife, as well as Tiro their son, would intersect in unexpected ways. The story brings then brings the reader back into the present where both worlds eventually coincide and the lives of those around Draco and Daria are forever redefined.