"And then a storm raged within me, my mind darkened by evil and hatred, and I said I will kill him and I grabbed him from behind, he was all covered in dust to prevent him from falling and I passed three houses above him and quickly made my way through the alley to get in front of him and I waited for him with the axe in my hand and when he turned around, I revealed myself, eee he said and lifted his head to see who I was but he didn't have time, the axe hit him in the chest and I struck him sideways as if I were chopping a tree and the iron went half an inch into his bones and he groaned and thundered on the wall and as I pulled out the axe, he fell down like a log and I started hacking and the axe shattered arms and shoulders and then I cut off his head and stabbed it into the opposite fence."
With the directness of "oral" speech, Gerassimos Kallipolitis records the events and incidents that definitively marked his life. Crossing the scorched earth of the civil war, he will lose his face, his identity, he will become an "unknown". The only orientation and starting point for him is his love for Eleni. This love will become his origin, his consciousness, and his identity.