Having grown up in an abusive family, in a world without love and warmth, and having lost his brother to suicide, Emmanuel moves to Athens to start a new chapter in his life.
Circumstances force him to leave his soul in a letter to be redeemed, revealing his family's sins. The last letter he will write. The text comes to life and the soul is revived. His final performance.
I observe, as I visit the pitch-dark and long-abandoned carriage of time, that I was a clown, a sad jester, a foolish clown. I was a miserable, despised, and cynical child, who took a long time to realize and hurried to feel.
A child who struggled to wrinkle his face, to furrow it and distort it, causing a silly expression, gasping to purse his lips, wanting to reveal a hideous grimace to make people laugh. That was my way of lightening people's lives. That way I would be accepted. I would receive a smile or a spit. I would always be a hypocrite.
As long as I live, I will be part of a theatrical performance without an audience, without applause, without praise, without applause.
Author: DIMITRIS BAIRAKTARIS
Language: ENGLISH
Pages: 136
