During the period of the Civil War in Makronisos, raw violence, terror, and despair reside. However, at Number Zero of Abyss Street, not only "executioners" and victims live; this society of madness also includes the uncompromising ideologist, the petty crook, the marginal who becomes the torturer, and the pseudo-intellectual "repentant" who passionately recites poetry to his old comrades...
"The horror of Makronisos cannot fit into books. It can only be read in the eyes of its madmen. Only the ears of Lavrio initially managed to catch some scraps of the voices...
Initially, because later even they cracked and heard nothing more. And so only the dogs remained - with their prophetic instinct - to scatter their wails from the coal heaps, like black prophecies emerging from the bowels of the ancient animal."