Mirto, a 24-year old young woman who makes 3d designs for her father, a garden architect, has just lost her mother, Adriana, who felled from the balcony of their house. Adriana was a teacher for children with special needs. She also liked to take pictures and was a big admiror of Diane Arbus. Mirto, while searching at her mother’s closet, finds out a letter from an unknown sender, possibly a secret lover, and relates this discovery with the burden that her mother seemed to carry… The sender has also made a sketch of an Arbus’s picture on the letter. Mirto finds other letters too, each one accompanied with a sketch, and the plot follows her attempts to find out the identity of the sender. Mirto’s relationship with Petros is unhappy as he is in a long term relationship with another woman.

Mirto goes on a trip to Serifos with Demetra, her best friend, for work. They meet Sandra, a painter who works for a project celebrating the 100 years after the strike of the Serifos’miners which caused the death of several workers. Mirto will discover there the story of her ancestors and that the sender of her mother’s letter is possibly a woman. She now suspects that her mother’s secret sexual identity was the real “burden”. Mirto develops a strange attraction for Sandra –as if mirroring the life of her mother- and they have a short but strong affair.

Mirto comes back to Athens where gradually an answer is given to all the questions. She comes in touch with Stella, the best friend of her mother, whom she suspects to be the “secret lover”. They meet at a café named “Two” where Stella reveals to Mirto that Adriana was in fact the sender of the letters. When she was 16 years old, Adriana had an involuntary pregnancy and gave birth to a baby-girl which had a health problem. Under pressure from her father she gave the baby to be adapted. All letters were addressed to her, whom she never lost the hope that one day she shall meet again.

Kichli, 2018, 196 p.