Fifteen short stories of sudden deaths, a return, and a story of unfulfilled love create this book with its unexpected cover that holds the image in front and the title on the back.

The photograph by Konstantinos Manos on the cover depicts a beach in the Peloponnese from the well-known collection "The Greek Portfolio," where nature and people seem to hush in order for the rhythmicity of the spoken word to be heard above the pebbles and the gentle sound of the waves within the written.