A father of the E.P.O.N. resistance and a multitude of stubborn, the indomitable people of P.A.O.K. and the Greek gentleman's paradox, the provincial stigma and the bourgeois integration, a mother uber alles and a nephew-successor who solved the potential, the kindness of friends and the hostile world of television, emerging domestic stars and solid Hollywood stars, youthful loves and later marriages, the whirlpool of lifestyle and obsession with aristocracy. In "Stories of a Childhood", Christos Zampounis radiographs the life of a child growing up, with the perspective of an adult who remains a child, focusing on the contradictions between being and appearing, having and existing. In the end, perhaps the prince of Salina in The Leopard was right when he claimed that "things must change in order to remain the same."

"...But the questions did not stop flooding me. Should I praise myself, as is usually done in these cases, or should I reveal my dark side? Should I mention people and things, or should I hide behind the rules of etiquette that I proclaimed in another book of mine, "Savoir Vivre"? Finally, should I reveal "well-hidden secrets and documents," like Ricky Martin who admitted to being a "happy gay man," or should I succumb to the well-trodden path of corner smoothing?"