"As the days go by, my secret becomes unbearable, I can no longer bear to carry it alone. I thought about talking to Mrs. Apostolou, the French teacher. I had planned in my mind what I would say to her. But it was difficult to gather the courage. However, yesterday I put aside my shame and went up to Ionias. At first glance, she understood that something was tormenting me. Her gaze, inquisitive, pierced through me. She took me by the hand and we sat on the entrance couch. 'Tell me... Something you want to tell me, your eyes are shouting it...'"

A family is forced to leave the village where they live and settle in a basement apartment in modern Athens. Eighteen-year-old Lefteris quickly adapts to city life. He meets the rich and beautiful Fotini and they fall in love. Daphne, his younger sister and a student in middle school, innocent and sensitive as she is, will struggle to overcome the traumatic experience she will live through with the ruthless and dangerous Themis. A powerful novel about the world of today's teenagers, with its dead ends, everyday problems, and the dangers of the big city.