He was a Prometheus of his time against gods and demons. For the sake of those who could gain an entire world by losing just their chains. His life, forged in fire and iron, unfolds thrillingly from Odessa to Mytilene, the Piraeus of labor struggles, the Spanish Civil War, the Eastern Front to post-civil war Greece.
This is the epic of an internationalist revolutionary who can only be compared to Ernesto Che Guevara. The comrade Griego, the "Greek companion," remained true to his ideas and uncompromising until the end.
Inspired by real people and events. By individuals who deeply believed and collectively struggled for the ideas that changed the world in the first half of the twentieth century. When historical time thickened, demonstrating that while one can save themselves alone, they cannot be saved alone.
At the same time, unknown aspects of those tumultuous years are revealed, such as: the arrival of the Asia Minor refugees, social conflicts against the State and Violence, the epidemics of the time, the repression and torture against communists, the schools of the Third International, the "universities" of prisons, the spectacular escapes.
Velouchiotis, Ehrenburg, Hemingway, Ibarruri, Dimitrov are just some of the figures that appear in this palimpsest of a life dedicated to selflessness: the novelistic life of Nikos Vavoudis.
