The story features a maritime brochure and travels for two decades, carrying seafaring men and seafaring women on the great or insignificant voyages of life, from Surampagia to the cherry orchards of Andros, from a tomato pilaf in Buenos Aires to the Allied shipwrecks during World War II in Riva and in the white two-story houses of Saltafero with the cheap ceiling, which, like a spread tulip, dripped the sounds of the upper house and along with them the sounds of love in the identical lower house, twenty-four thin cypress planks that ruined lives.

The widely read novel by Ioanna Karystiani was adapted into a film by Pantelis Voulgaris, based on her own screenplay, starring Pinelopi Tsilika, Maxim Moomouris, Andreas Konstantinou, Vasilis Vasilakis, Anesa Papadopoulou, and Christos Kalavrouzos (1st screening: December 2013).