The great novel about the fate of a family amidst the turmoil of the Armenian Genocide. Gabriel Bagradian has spent the last twenty-three years in Paris. Now he returns to his homeland Armenia with his wife and child. The stay is supposed to be short, but then World War I breaks out. Bagradian and his family are trapped. When the Ottoman Empire enacts the deportation of the entire Armenian population, Bagradian devises a daring plan: he will resist. Thus, he sets out with over five thousand allies to Mount Musa Dagh to confront the Turkish overwhelming force.