The story is nourished by the tributaries of microhistory. It is one of the ways to complete and construct the overall picture and interpret phenomena. All families build and then pass down the past of their members from generation to generation.

They shape their unique version of their social presence and survival over time. This version mainly passes orally, with variations and deviations, additions, but also omissions from branch to branch, which include critical commentary and comparative observations. Bold beginnings stumble upon insurmountable circumstances and unsuccessful choices.

Persons who existed but were lost to illnesses, sorrows, and dead ends. Individuals who experienced success as they measured it themselves but slipped away at some turn. The motivation of Piano, among other things, was to record a specific era, starting from the late 19th century and reaching into the mid-20th century in a particular place, Vostitsa-Aegio, with the backdrop of development based on a popular and sensitive agricultural product, the raisin, of a specific urban family.

It presents the journeys of people through time and places that balance between family fiction and events.