Annezo gives birth to Stavris. Stavris has a daughter, Anna. Anna brings up a little foundling girl, Ariadne. Their lives, full of adventures and twists, cover a period from 1900 up to now: From the sponge-divers of Symi to the diver slave trade. From the rich mansions of Hydra to the poor neighborhoods of Drapetsona, where they undergo extreme exploitation and humiliation. From bombed Piraeus in 1941 to petit bourgeois Kypseli. From beautiful Nafpaktos and Mr Dickens to the demonstrations in Athens in 2010.

A panorama of 20^th century Greece and the events that marked the country and its people. The real protagonists’ lives intertwine with those of the imaginary characters. A historical novel that explores all important points in History, that shaped and defined the lives of the protagonists, always with memory—both collective and individual—framing their microcosm.

Kastaniotis, 2016, 336 p.