Six years being a soldier. From Görlitz in Germany, to fighting at the Sakarya River in Asia minor, to then become a refugee in Piraeus. Abatzis will find himself in prison for an honor crime, alongside burglars, pick-pocketers, scammers, drug addicts, and with the notorious Sakaflias. The punishment is severe, and the prison has strict and inviolable rules. When he comes out, nothing binds him to any land, and the country feels like a ship adrift. His path will lead him, in May 1936, to a turbulent from workers’ demonstrations Thessaloniki.

Ikaros, 2024, 112