With the weapons of deep knowledge and love for the work of Markos Vamvakaris, Dimitris B. Varthalitis delivers a biography of the artist that includes unique new testimonies about events, places, and situations related to Markos, his work, the places he lived, the people he met, and interacted with.

The President of AHEPA, Anastasios E. Vasilas, the director Nikos Koundouros, the philosopher Evangelos Roussos, the ethnomusicologist Lampros Liavas, the musicologist Anastasia Georgaki, neighbors from Syros and Piraeus, family members, teachers, and classmates of his children, artists who played with him, and many others, bring to life through their words, magical moments of rebetiko history featuring the sacred monster of our country's cultural underground.