Originating in Russia, the Zhdanov family has supernatural powers, derived from the wearing of a golden chain handed down to only the male heirs. This power made them arrogant, haughty and proud.

Anyone who opposed them lost the battle – except for one sole woman who possessed a silver chain which turned out to be the antithesis of the Zhdanov’s power. Even so, however, she had to flee Russia after killing a member of the Zhdanov clan.

That is where Malta comes in, for it was to Malta, a far-away country from Russia, that the poor woman fled. Nevertheless, the Zhdanovs somehow came to know about her whereabouts and  they followed her here.

In Malta, however, fate and love intervene. The woman’s daughter falls in love with the Zhdanov son.

Many times, the outcome is in doubt: the woman gets killed, the love affair peters out, the son and the daughter fall out.

But then fate intervenes and everything is ironed out. It all ends up well and they live on happily and in love ever after.

Reading it like this, one would have thought this is a children’s fable and maybe it is. But the story flows smoothly and for all the background of supernatural powers and the like, the love story that emerges is not based at all about supernatural powers.

Or rather it is based on the supernatural power that is called love.