When I started writing this book, I heard people around me emigrating because they could not find work in our homeland. This sparked my desire to travel with them, to share the journey. Primarily, to understand the emotions they would experience in the "paradise" they were heading to. Thus, I traveled back in time, to when many left for a better life; who truly knows if they eventually found it?

This book was therefore my opportunity to refer to the fact that problems, needs, fears, pains, joys, and sorrows know no borders and thus the immigrants of today would experience what those of yesterday did. My hero, Giannis, is a young man who could emigrate today. He left back then for a better life, coincidentally he found it; of course, this was not the case for everyone, after all, it is just a book.

However, he had the privilege to live the great gift of friendship, with another person, from another nation, another religion, with a different culture and mentality. Many things separated them, but their everyday life, the ups and downs of life, connected them. My hero experienced a lot, suffered for his mistakes, felt the expatriation, the loneliness. He confronted time, which proved to be his greatest enemy.

Giannis gets lost in the routine and does everything in hindsight. He does not want it, does not seek it, life chooses it for him, and he follows along; he cannot do otherwise. Time and Giannis engage in a constant battle throughout the book. A battle that has only one victor, time. It continues to struggle and wonder about the many and great "questions of life," the unanswered "whys."

Of course, I have no answers, nor do I present solutions. I share with you the "whys" of my hero and wonder about coming into life, leaving, love, and death. I do not wish to say anything new, as I have nothing of the sort. I only want to share my thoughts and feelings, worries, and unanswered questions with you. I know that many of you out there think like me, and I simply want to tell you that we are alike; this is why we can share our anxieties and sorrows, our thoughts and loneliness, our hopes and joys.