"I will leave, cousin," Panos said over and over again, hoping that he would finally make up his mind and return to the village.
Sevasti was in agony all day, begging for them to bring back Zacharias. The father of the child she carried in her belly.

Tsilkias only had the wolf for company in the yard. And no matter what others said, he would not let anyone take him away.
Lefteris, a captain on the Albanian front, had promised that even if a soldier remained alive, he would take him back to his homeland.
For twenty years, Georgia has been wandering on buses, withering away for a conversation, for a glance from Kostantis.
Lolos laughed thunderously. And every time the jackdaws heard him, they would drop their corn and fly away in fear.

Six stories about loss. The loss of emotions, logic, life itself. The dominant setting is Aetolia-Acarnania and Epirus during the war, the Occupation, the Civil War, and migration. Fragile people who, unable to face the harshness that surrounds them, see escape as their only way out.