 The novel relates an impossible love story between two young people issued from different communities which cultivate hostility between each other, either latent or evident, in the true fashion of "Romeo and Juliet" and many other stories produced by different cultures throughout the ages.Akabi is a daughter of Gregorian Armenians, and Hagop, her reciprocated lover, is a Catholic.Despite being an early novel and having been written by a male writer, Akabi character is the more prominent of the two principal heroes.