"Balader" by Maria Giannou traverses, persistently and beautifully accurately, the entire scale of love from the first irreversible step. In its pages, the author shatters a love story to examine the broken pieces with childlike curiosity and depth before starting to piece them back together with the glue of poetry: the initial problems in communication that lovers are called to solve by learning each other's language ("we translated for each other the text that recommended us"), the awakening of the "Primordial" Body, which stands as a third entity between them, the need for escape ("Just half a minute. To take a breath outside your skin"), separation, unpaid letters, and love, this "state where your weight is enormous, but gravity is zero," all the elements are here, in this erotic extravaganza that leads its heroes swiftly towards the abyss of happiness.