A woman meets her future husband by chance at an airport. An intense, passionate love. Soon they begin to build their shared life: they buy a house, build careers, have children. Until he starts facing serious problems at work, while she enjoys increasing professional recognition. The balance is disrupted. Everything changes in an unexpected and nightmarish twist...

A shocking monologue about violence, power, and the relationships between the two sexes in contemporary patriarchal society. "[...] we have an absolute responsibility to ourselves and our children to confront the crimes of war between the sexes, which in no way has ceased in modern Western civilization; it has merely changed form: it has become insidious but remains equally deadly, and we are all its victims."

"The children, in the context of the work, are the only family members who have names. The parents could be any of us," says the translator of Nenis Kelly's work, Anna-Maria Stefanoudou.

An afterword for this particular edition has been written by Dr. Michaela Antoniou (Teaching Staff of the Department of Theater Studies at the University of Athens).