Paris, sometime after the 1967 military coup in Greece. Eleni, along with some of her fellow political exiles, finds herself working in the film Horror Train. It is not the first time she has been caught up in a deadly drama, nor is it her first ride on a horror train. Her mind wanders to her first train ride: ‘You’re Eleni? I’m Achilles. 'For the rest of her life, Eleni will be “Achilles’ Fiancée”, the brave, handsome guerrilla leader code-named Achilles. In the demonstrations against the German occupation, in prison where she waits for a death sentence during the post-war persecution of suspected leftists, in Tashkent where the exiled Greek communists fight amongst themselves, and finally in Paris. But somewhere along the way Eleni becomes an independent character with a mind of her own…In her story of a young woman’s struggle to survive through extraordinary circumstances, Alki Zei has woven the threads of her own quasi-mythical life into the stuff of history