High above the modern village of Kamarinain in the Epirus, on a lonely windswept cliff six ghostly stone figures hold hands at the edge of a precipice, face bravely into the wind and call out to their long dead sisters. Here in the winter of 1803, Suliotesses and their children, surrounded by the forces of Ali Pasha and facing humiliation and unspeakable horrors, chose to sacrifice themselves and their children. Following a tradition of dance and celebration which heralded back to ancient female rituals, the women held hands while dancing and singing and threw themselves and their children off the mountain and into the waters of the Acheron river appropriately known since ancient times as the “river of woe”.