The events described in this book, which is the second part of the political autobiography of Giannis Varvitsiotis, take place between two crucial electoral contests for Greece, both of which led to the defeat of New Democracy and the assumption of power by PASOK.

Giannis Varvitsiotis, one of the leading figures of New Democracy and one of the main protagonists of the country's political affairs in recent decades, presents the period 1981-1993 "as he experienced it", from the front lines.

The rise of PASOK to power, the governments of the "Change" and the infamous "decade of the 1980s". Political conflicts and major scandals. The fall of real socialism and the dramatic rearrangements it brought, especially in our "neighborhood". The "right parenthesis" of the Mitsotakis government and the nemesis of the Skopianos. And of course, the three and a half years of the author's tenure at the Ministry of National Defense, one of the most critical ministries of the Greek state during the turbulent geopolitical period of the early 1990s.

With the wisdom and sober perspective that time provides, Giannis Varvitsiotis gives the mark of an entire era through well-known but also unknown events to the general public, offering his own testimony with immediacy, simplicity, and sincerity for a period that largely shaped the country's subsequent course.