I have been watching this series for 6-7 months approximately and the only thing I have to say is that it is a marvellous TV series with an exquisite cast! It's about the story of a Greek woman, Katina, who lived at the end of the 19th/beginning of 20th century in Smyrna,Turkey and led a fascinating and turbulent life. She got acquainted with a very gifted Turkish witch, Attarti, who initiated her in occult, magic, cards, taro, crystals, prophecy telling etc. She considered her as her "Daughter" and helped her to climb the top of the social ladder, marry 4 times and become one of the biggest heads of Smyrna. Katina managed also to interfere herself with commerce and command the trade of the city. She and her mother, Efthalia, were also "gifted" witches from birth, as Attarti confided in them (and that is why she chose them to be her Daughters), but the real fact is that it was also due to Katina's ruthlessness and spite why all this social rising happened.
It is the romantic story of a dynamic and emancipated woman living her life to the full at the beginning of the last century in a mysterious, dark and passionate Smyrna, an era though which has been faded and died out from minds of most modern people but has been recalled again after ages by Mara Meimaridi, distant relative of Katina and writer of the homonymous best-seller book. Although the series is not as loyal to the book's plot as it should have been (and, of course, it never happens that when a book is transfered to the TV/movie screen), the viewer will be surely carried away by the magic atmosphere of the story.
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