In the aftermath of Nazi Germany's occupation of Greece and the bloody civil war that followed, tragedy strikes a small village in Peloponnesus. A murder is committed - an unheard of occurrence at the time - in this fabled region of the country. A family is torn apart, irrevocably changed by the actions of a madman. NEW WHITE SANDALS tells the story of Adoni's murder, his wife's subsequent incarceration for allegedly killing the perpetrator, and their youngest child's heart-rending trip across the Atlantic in search of a brighter tomorrow in a distand land.