SYNOPSIS

A Cold Open: Twenty miners die in an explosion at a Greek mine in Thrace, right on the border with Turkey and Bulgaria. The Greek government buries the truth, along with anyone who dares to expose it. Meanwhile, across the world, the New York Stock Exchange teeters on the brink of collapse, a geopolitical standoff erupts in the Balkans, and Europe stands on the edge of war. 

One year ago: Twenty-eight-year-old Anastasia, a young, idealistic Greek woman, has a junior role in the financial department at the Athens headquarters of the powerful Greek mining company Voreas, which operates a mine in Thrace. Its parent company is Green Minerals, a massive US-based outfit that has a global network of mining operations. Anastasia aspires to change the world. She desperately wants to make an impact but doesn’t yet know how. Her life takes a dramatic turn when she meets forty-year-old Irene, the charismatic leader of a left-wing opposition group. Irene uncovers Voreas’s dirty dealings and its clandestine collusion with high-ranking Greek government officials and asks Anastasia to spy on the company and gather inside information. Anastasia hesitates at first but, as the evidence mounts, her resistance crumbles. Risking everything, she agrees to join the cause. As she starts her covert investigation, she meets and falls for thirty-five-year-old Thanos, an ethically incorruptible mining engineer in Thrace. They grow closer and their passion ignites. Then, Thanos confides a haunting secret: a dangerous environmental leak is threatening the region. Shocked and moved, Anastasia secretly passes the information to Irene. Massive protests erupt across Athens, rallying against Voreas and the right-wing government. With Thanos’s help, Anastasia digs deeper—only to discover that corporate corruption is just the tip of the iceberg.

Anastasia soon crosses paths with fifty-year-old Anestis, who hails from a small mining village in Thrace and officially works as the chauffeur for Voreas’s executives. Behind that facade, however, his role is to handle the company’s dirty dealings. He leverages his influence among the local Muslim mine workers, manipulating, bribing, threatening, and silencing them on behalf of the company. However, Anestis has a further secret mission, driven by a deeply personal motive: revenge. Haunted by his past as an operative of the Greek Navy’s Special Forces, he bears the trauma of a failed mission in the Aegean, during which his close friend drowned after “delayed” orders in which both the Greek military and NATO were directly involved. Consumed with anger and a burning desire for vengeance, Anestis infiltrates Turkish intelligence, starting a dangerous, dual existence. He visits Istanbul, adopting the persona of a drag queen—the perfect cover for executing covert assassinations and “clean-up” missions for secret agents, powerful corporations, and oil giants, in a sensitive geopolitical area that could easily trigger military tensions. Anestis and Anastasia form a deep, though unspoken, bond. As Anastasia searches for the truth, she begins to consult Anestis about her next steps. Unbeknownst to her, Anestis will protect her from the greatest dangers, though he will never reveal his true identity.

Across the Atlantic, fifty-year-old Seth is a top executive at Green Minerals in Denver. Green Minerals oversees vast “green” mining operations worldwide to fuel the demand for so-called sustainable technologies—often at a steep ethical and environmental cost. Seth is tasked with keeping Voreas in line from afar, ostensibly protecting the mine from Greek corruption and protests. Beneath the surface, however, Seth is a key player in the Billionaires’ Club—a powerful network of shareholders and executives who manipulate financial data to inflate stock prices, indifferent to the long-term consequences this may inflict. Determined to keep the lie alive and protect the company’s stock, Seth overlooks his greatest vulnerability—his own son, Alex. A twelve-year-old who is obsessed with strategy games, Alex becomes immersed in a VR gaming network linked to the dark web. Anastasia and Thanos spot him online and subtly manipulate him, trying to extract crucial information. Alex is unaware of any significant details but unwittingly mentions a company name tied to the Cayman Islands—the key that unravels Green Minerals’ financial lies. The truth is staggering. Voreas’s mine is a front: It contains no exploitable ore and is merely a tool to manipulate the stock market, involving high-level US and Greek politicians with even deeper truths at play. 

In a tragic turn, a mine accident kills twenty Turkish-speaking miners, leaving Thanos critically injured and in a coma. The Greek government covers up the deaths, escalating tensions with Türkiye. Meanwhile, the Green Minerals fraud is exposed in the United States, triggering a far-reaching investigation and a global financial collapse starting with the New York Stock Exchange. Military tensions escalate in the Balkans, and the world is thrown into chaos. In Athens, several Voreas executives mysteriously vanish after they speak out. Anastasia, now terrified for her life, isolates herself.

Will the truth ever come out, or will the cover-up drag the world further into darkness?