With half-truths, peoples cultivate and nurture their national prejudices. In an environment of national self-satisfaction, national prejudices, free from individual awareness and emotions, acquire the hardness of a popular accuser. No extenuating circumstances are accepted.
Thus, the simplification of accusations takes on a particular technique, and generalization becomes generalized as a rule. The culprits are the others. In reaction to these prejudicial accusations, perhaps biased myself, I consciously place the characters of my work in a liminal space of Greek decline.
In a provincial landscape, where the anxiety of survival precedes the application of economic regulations, and disobedience to the laws becomes a daily exercise of survival. In this landscape, the accused never fully understand the reasons for which they are accused. Their defense is always weak because the indictment is always based on half-truths.
But when the half-truth is completed by prejudice, it is enough for a conviction.
