"My father made me a man and my mother made me a writer." The return of a son for a few days to his parental home in Athens. The relationship with his ninety-two-year-old mother, who is always waiting for her son who lives abroad in Sweden. The communication with the deceased father through a diary that talks about the family roots in a lost homeland, Pontus, revealing the journey of a family in the 20th century.

The search for the identity of a person who is a stranger everywhere, living between two homelands – the one where he was born and the one where he started his own family – in two cultures, two languages, and two customs. A self-fiction about how difficult it is to migrate, saying goodbye to your loved ones, but also how difficult it is to stay in a place where you feel you are not wanted.

And above all, a tribute to the mother, whose love is imprinted on the pages of this book in an unforgettable way. "Thodoris Kallifatidis has the ability to narrate a story naturally, as if it has unfolded effortlessly, without being suffocated by the psychological flood of a person who is actually struggling to survive." Mario Vargas Llosa