The novel "The Illegal" by Michalis Moira is the only work that has tackled one of the perhaps most tragic themes of uprooted Hellenism.

"The Illegal" presents us with the world of illegality, uprooting, and delinquency in every phase, within which the young illegal immigrant is forced to live for a piece of bread.

The hostile (social and racial) conditions, the constant fear of surveillance, arrest, and imprisonment or deportation from the country lurk at every moment and place for the illegal immigrant - and all together create a continuous vigilance and readiness for every eventuality in the uprooted young person from Greece.