This book is read like a novel, like a chronicle of a family, but also as an excerpt from the narrative of modern Greece. Mytilene after the Catastrophe, the dark clouds of the Occupation and the Civil War, and later the day of departure; the search for the dream in the capital, the beginning of a great journey. From Leonidas Triantafyllou's Circular Theater to "Rex" and the Beautiful City with Mikis Theodorakis, the Magical City with Mikis and Manos Hatzidakis, the first bouzouki, the Small Cyclades. In the charged decade of the '60s, where a love blossoms with obstacles, but is interrupted by the junta. In the years of Resistance, with performances and concerts abroad: in Western and Eastern Europe, in Russia, in Canada and, mainly, in the Netherlands, where the Songs of Zatouna by Mikis Theodorakis are first recorded, a culmination of the anti-dictatorship struggle, but also a reason for a family to come together again. And then the great return, to the homeland and the theater. The junta that leaves, the freedom that comes. The last concert and shortly after the Dress Rehearsal - the beginning of a new, brilliant journey in the books and in the hearts of thousands of readers.