With everything that has come to light since his sudden death, the man who decrypted Linear B decides to speak. He feels that he owes it to his children and his wife, to his friends and his colleagues.

His curiosity about a research program undertaken by Maro Stavridis leads him to Athens, where - closely following her peculiar story - he also sheds light on his own brief passage through life, unfolding and revealing for the first time some aspects that may succeed in unraveling the mystery called "Michael Ventris".