As the sun rises over the Egyptian coastline, one of the world’s largest yachts steams towards Alexandria. Standing on it’s upper deck is Julius Caspard, billionaire oil tycoon and philanthropist who is returning to the city where he was born on his 80th. birthday. And as he gazes at the approaching waterfront, he recalls his youth as an impecunious Armenian bank clerk in what was then the most glittering city of the Mediterranean, and of his frustrated but ever haunting love for an 18 year ols heiress before his subsequent escalade to immense riches and worldwide recognition.
Set against a changing backdrop of prewar Egypt, of Paris, London and New York in the sixties and seventies, of terrorism in the Middle East and famine in Etheopia, all the aspects of human strengths and frailties are brought to life in this international three-generation saga where a dramatic climax redimensions a man’s destiny