A grandfather offers lemons instead of flowers. A woman in a wheelchair dive into the sea. A young girl struggles to survive in the world of adults. Different people inhabit an unnamed place that soon feels familiar: Mr. Nikos, little Elenitsa, Mr. P., the doctor with the red backpack.

Linked by the presence of water sometimes washing away pain and disappointment, sometimes reviving dreams of the past or future these characters confront loss and longing in a realm where time seems to dissolve. Across eighteen interconnected stories, their lives flow into one another in a circular journey at whose center stands hope.

Polis, 2018, 152p.