Spring 1973. The Colonels’ Junta rules Greece since 1967. Dictator Georgios Papadopoulos inexplicably loses something very important. The loss must remain a closely guarded secret, because if it becomes known, his power will be threatened. Anitsa Tombezi, a medium, fortune teller, and personal card reader for Despoina Papadopoulou, magically acquires the repulsive but priceless object—and does not know what to do with it. Because she has already tarnished her nest: she too has a secret, which, if discovered, will lead her, her son, and her lover to execution. And the days pass, and the foundations of the dictatorship creak, and everything seems to revolve around an unprecedented enigma, floating in a jar of formaldehyde. A black comedy about the dark days of the seven-year dictatorship, about the beast of selfishness and the mystery of love. The junta’s bird: who dares to catch it?

Patakis, 2025, 360 p.