The protagonist of the book, a humble postman, narrates in first person his story, which takes place in a mountainous community in post-war Crete. A sensitive observer of a harsh reality, the postman is influenced and treated by society, by encounters with deceivers, by unrequited loves, and ultimately by a married life filled with secrets and lies - until one day he awakens and becomes the protagonist himself, leading the narrative to a complete plot twist and propelling it towards a dramatic catharsis.

Love and its possibilities, the strict limitations of customs in the mountain heights, memory, love, and death unfold with a poetic language, of rare maturity in our prose - a language that does not allow room for emotion to "swallow" the narrative. The language itself becomes a protagonist of the book, forcefully bringing back the question of authentic literature.