A true story of great intensity, written with such vivid details that every page tears the mind and heart apart. The characters and names are real, without pseudonyms, as well as the places where they acted, so that the reader can experience the long-awaited catharsis.
January 1920 on an island in the Northern Aegean. A month that would be the last of his youth. "I will drown you with my own hands." A phrase that would tear apart the roof of his soul from end to end.
"I swear on my honor that I am innocent! My mother, where is my mother? Only she can stop all this madness!"
A woman who held in her hands all the misfortunes of the world! "May you have my curse! You dishonored your generation! You closed our homes!"
"Not even my mother...", the last words uttered by Captain Giorgis as he left marked by his place. A family falls apart, a house crumbles. And the odyssey begins...
From Chios to Vourla, from the ashes of the Asia Minor catastrophe to the outskirts of Piraeus and Volos, the heroes will fight with the demons of their lives, wandering for about half a century. Injured souls, uprooted, some managed to find refuge and others destroyed themselves until the end of their lives.
"NO ONE BELIEVED ME... NOT EVEN MY MOTHER!"