Intrigue

Set in 1922, is the story of a mail order bride, one of 700, aboard the SS KING ALEXANDER, who falls in love with an American photographer. She is bound for her new husband, in New York; he is on his way home to a failed marriage.

In 1922, with the Greco-Turkish War and the Russia Civil War, the women from these countries find husband in the United States through correspondence with immigrants. The bride Eleni returns from the United States to Samothrace, Greece, since she has not adapted to the life in America. Her sister Niki Douka is assigned as her replacement and travels aboard the SS King Alexander to New York to marry the Greek immigrant Prodromos in Chicago. Nikki is a hard worker and works sewing along the trip for the passengers and crew. She becomes a leader of the brides and discovers the scheme of the crook Karabulat from Georgia with the Russian brides. She also falls in love with the American photographer Norman Harris from Detroit. But Nikki is committed with Prodromos and she knows the consequence with her family in Samothrace if she runs away with Norman.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Spring of 1922, a few months before the Asia Minor Catastrophe. Bound for the United States of America, the American photographer Norman Harris and Niki Douka, a young Greek seamstress, find themselves aboard the steamship King Alexander. But Niki is much more than a simple passenger: she is one of the 700 mail order brides on board intended for single immigrant workers in America. And, brimming with hope, the brides cannot stop dreaming of a bright new life in the Promised Land. But love works in mysterious ways. What has the future in store for the soon-to-be wives?—Nick Riganas

It is 1922, the year of the ASIA MINOR catastrophe, Greek men are at war and young Greek women (as well as from other impoverished countries) unable to find a husband are forced to accept arranged marriages and to emigrate in America where Greek men have emigrated before in search of jobs. They travel onboard King Alexander, a ship that does the regular transatlantic passing. All the brides-to-be have a picture and a name of the man they are going to marry. They are sad, leaving their country and family behind, but also apprehensive, trying to figure out their future life. The main characters are NIKH and NORMAN, who have the chance to get to know each other and whose lives are going to be affected by this trip.