Zeus, king of gods, was father to a great many children. One of them, named Physalis, grew up in a fishing village close to her lighthouse-keeper mother. When a shipwreck claims the lives of her childhood friends’ fathers, she becomes aware of the anger she feels at never having met her own father and sets out on the road in search of the absent Zeus, as cowardly as he is mighty. Accompanied by her half-sister, Britomartis, she embarks on a journey that will introduce her to her illegitimate brothers, who turn out to be lost souls who are at once divine, monstrous, and powerful…