- What is it, Niko?
- Do you know what's going on? he says, placing his lips to my ear.
- I don't know..., I reply. [...]
- They've killed a minister!
- How??
My friend searched with his eyes to see if anyone had heard him.
- When?
- The night before last. Of Justice. The son of our landlady, Stefanos Papayiorgakis, whispered it to me while filling his pitcher at the faucet. We climbed the stairs in silence. Near the door, I bent down to his ear.
- There's no need to say anything anywhere, I tell him. I'm expecting more.
Ikaria, Security, Vourla, Makronisos... The life experiences of Menelaos Loundemis in the places of exile and "reformation" of dissenters under the post-civil war regime. Within the suffocating confines of exile and imprisonment, the author composes a mosaic of characters - the fighter, the gendarme, the informer, the marginal, the progressive priest - who coexist in a microcosm of society in the early years after the Civil War, interact, and constitute a "mirror" of a difficult period in modern Greek history.
