«Manolis, Dimitra, and Giannis met in difficult times. Tell me, life, why do you make the sweetest bonds sorrowful in the end?»
Three children - wounded and exiled, street urchins - meet, find refuge in a squat in Exarchia, and become siblings.
Early '90s, and Athens is frantic: rivers of wealth on one side, despair of the night on the other. Drugs, streetwalking, stabbings, wild poverty.
The three friends struggle to live their youth, but danger lurks all around: ruthless bosses and clients, enemies of the squats, a habitual phantom killer determined to clean up the scene - and above all, hidden everywhere, the specter of AIDS, hungry for bodies aching for love. Twenty-five years later, the only surviving member of the group recounts those unforgettable times, conversing with the lost friends.
A story of nostalgia and the sorrow of wronged youth, a hymn to the undying flame of friendship.
«Even when I cry and hurt, I don't wake the friends who sleep.»
A novel of companionship, laughter, and tears. A friend means your heart in another's chest.