How much pleasure can fit in a cup of coffee? How much history does it carry in its foam and how much ideology drips in its sediment? Cypriot - otherwise Greek, Turkish, Balkan, Mediterranean or Eastern - coffee unfolds its secrets in a multifaceted study that seeks its roots, examines its culture, and decrypts the meanings in its consumption practices.

With the traditional, male-dominated coffeehouse as a reference point, the everyday, non-negotiable habit of Cypriot coffee serves as a pretext for historical retrospection, archival documentation, ethnographic research, literary exploration, ideological observation, legal investigation, note-taking analysis, typographic commentary, and photographic wandering.

The words of coffee and the discussions about the coffeehouse, with regulars and non-regulars, confirm the power of an outdated institution with a gender dimension in the modern European reality of Cyprus.