On October 24  1917, the first day of the revolution in Odessa, the whites shoot Sarah's husband, David. The next day, after  hastily burying him, Sara flees with Avraham, her seven-year-old son, on the Central Asian roads to Shanghai, leaves the child behind, and returns to trade in the bloody underbelly of the revolution, a young woman for whom nothing stands in her way. 
 A hundred years later , Aya, her great-granddaughter, joins the man she loves, the leader of a group of warriors abandoned as the world turns upside down. She escapes with him along the trans-Asian roads without knowing that she is following Sarah's journey. 
Her love and adventure lead her, a young woman, in a wonderful, crumbling, cruel and dangerous world.