On the streets of a city sinking into despair, among people he until recently used to avoid, he slowly comes to the understanding that nothing is for granted and that in the midst of all this garbage, cement and ugliness, there may still arise hope, not just for survival, but for life.

The new novel by Vassilis Danellis, while unfolding over the “ruins” of a modern metropolis, deals with timeless issues concerning human existence. Its heroes are people living right next to us, only we never pay attention, thinking nothing of them. The newly poor, the homeless, the outcast and the immigrants. People so suspended in today's reality, they could easily be us.

“Through his austere writing style, Vassilis Danellis attempts to trace the effects of the crisis on Athenian and, by extension, Greek society, but doesn't settle for just blaming it all on the perpetrators of this collective tragedy”  Filippos Filippou, Diastixo