Antigone, the ancient daughter of myth, is thrown into a cell because she wanted to bury her brother. Another daughter, in the present day, is trapped in the prison of inertia. Each struggles, in her own way, to mark her place on the map of the world, a fluid map constantly redrawn by the struggle for dominance. The country is ailing, and so is the family. Desire, devotion, and freedom are continually losing ground to division, corruption, and brutality. The woman she loves is a castaway. Can the heroic example serve as a compass for her today?

The work began to be written in 2011, amidst the turmoil of the social and economic crisis, and was completed in 2020. Through its pages flash moments of the unrestrained euphoria that preceded the crisis, the neo-Nazi gangs, the war refugees, the detention camps, and the ecological destruction.

It seems that one is led to the mythical archetype every so often to grasp the unthinkable, that one is forced “...to discover an analogy / ... to be able to say / that the terrible thing we are living now is not / unique you know it has happened before / ... we are not without a compass...” (Anne Carson, Antigonick, 2012).