All that you wrote about yourself deeply affected me; it is characteristic of you, and you don’t realize how much it moves me — the intense pain that follows every step of the journey, balancing the short time you pass through various stages. ... Maybe it’s a general curse of our times; but we Greeks are especially burdened by it: to whom will I echo, what will I become;

Ellie Lambridi to Pantelis Prevelakis, 7.1.1931

In their twenty-year correspondence, Pantelis Prevelakis and Ellie Lambridi reveal their thoughts, questions about their life's path, hopes, struggles, anxieties, and decisions — elements that outline their personalities.