Themes such as melancholy about politics, love in older age, the wrinkles painted by repeated smiles, the caress of the seashore, a utility bill that serves as a bookmark, and other related issues that concern contemporary people create the landscape of Maria Kakogianni, which seems intoxicated and where the language appears to stumble as the sentences try to find a rhythm.

Against the dominant narrative of our time, which screams frantically, fatalistically, and tiredly that there is no alternative, the response that emerges from Kakogianni's six texts is that there are many alternatives, but perhaps the interest lies in the following: Not so much in what a narrative describes but in what it constitutes and how it engages with thought.