Three hero's voices intertwine in the historic novel Black Earth: Yehuda from Capua in Italy, the son of a Jewish slave that set out on a long journey seeking his roots in the land of Israel post the destruction of the second Temple; his mother, Miriam, who lived as a child in Yodfat, until the city fell in the big Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire (67- 71 AD); and the senator Julius Polibus from Pompeii, who is submerged to his neck in the intrigues of the Roman political court, only days before the volcanic eruption (79 AD).

Before passing away, Miriam told her son 'her story' which gives a new perspective of the known history of Yodfat destruction. In her story we hear not only the echoes of battle and the cries of warriors, but also the voices of the houses and the fields, the secrets of the hearts of the city's habitants and their intense faith – months before the big revolt that ignited the entire country.

Meanwhile, we are presented with the decadent world of the nobility of Pompeii , on the eve of the forthcoming disaster. When the story reaches its peak the solid structure of character, time, and place is shattered and becomes shards of a story that, like a puzzle, combines one surprising outcome.