MatinaCK
What if the only way to survive the present is to slip into the past?
Melina's life shatters in 1967, the night her mafia-connected husband commits a murder and disappears. She flees to New York, slowly reclaiming herself from addiction and building a quiet, orderly life far from the chaos she escaped.
At the end of 1970, just before returning home to Chicago for the holidays, she experiences a brief, dream-like slip into the past, too vivid to ignore. Back in Chicago, she discovers the notebook she kept in 1951 to record the summer that shaped her. Then something extraordinary happens, and she slips fully into her own past: 1950s Greece, the summer that defined her, and into the orbit of Stephanos, the first love she never truly let go.
As the time slips deepen, buried memories and hidden truths resurface. But danger is awakening in the present. The police reopen the investigation into her husband's disappearance, and shadows from his criminal world begin to stir.
Caught between two timelines, Melina must navigate the life she rebuilt and the life she once lost. The notebook offers a doorway to the girl she used to be. Can the past give her the strength to survive the present?