One autumn Saturday night, eight or nine young people, a crazy group, each one unique, head down towards Pangrati, singing serenades accompanied by guitar and mandolin, and doing all sorts of crazy things in the deserted streets. A little further away in a poor house, a dying girl wakes up from her lethargy, recognizing the voice passing by...

Aristocratically raised, excellently educated, the only child of a minister, a renewer of tradition, openly homosexual, a fellow traveler of the communists, a drug addict, a suicide, Napoleon Lapathiotis unfolds in the novella "Somewhere a Voice Passed" pages of a bygone Athens, where the working-class children of the neighborhoods of 1915, an unrequited love, and a subcutaneous homosexual attraction take center stage.

In this first edition of the novella in book form, Nikos Sarantakos, beyond analyzing and relating it to the rest of Lapathiotis' work, provides an extensive timeline of the poet, with many details that have not been published until now, adding another piece to the study of the life and multifaceted work of the suicide of Kountouriotou Street.