Two girls united with sisterly friendship sisterly are raised in a provincial, suffocating environment under an ethical hierarchy that plunges them into a world of fear and guilt. Aristi, restless by nature, uncovers the roots of her fear through questioning and learning. She searches for truths about her place within a male-dominated society, her freedom of thought, politics and love. In contrast, her friend Dialechti remains in “safe and shallow” waters, always taking small and timid steps in life. Their relationship will meet a turning point with the arrival of Dionysus Arhontis, a dashing, bacchic figure of a man. From then on the two girls with endure great trials, fuctioning like an allegory for Greece’s National Schism that separated Greek compatriots for years. TA stunning book about fear and submission, dreams and delusions and the search for freedom.

Kastaniotis, 2016, 720 p.