"The newspaper Rambagas in June 1882 announces that due to the proliferation of thieves, citizens have decided to establish an anti-theft association. Each member carries a sign on their back clearly stating the phrase 'Approach is prohibited'. The thieves respond by forming their own association. Each member wears a sign on their chest that says 'Steal to eat and steal to have'."

People crossed paths on the streets and in the neighborhoods, giving life to everyday life, painting with the warm and cold colors of their emotions, again and again, the changing landscape of the city. They played the roles of protagonists or silent faces, dynamic or indifferent spectators, orchestrated in the anonymous multitude of named members of the community. [...]

The face of Athens would be colorless, with an empty gaze, without their presence, their stories, their lives. History needs micro-history, aspects of which are captured in the columns of newspapers and recorded in collective memory; the memory of the city.