Dimitris Georgiadis

The story of the statesman Ioannis Kapodistrias from his time as foreign minister of Russia all the way to Greece's independence in the 1820s.

In the 1950s, Grigoris and Iulia are very much in love with each other, but they are the children of feuding families. Iulia is forced to marry Giorgikis, a rich and much older man whom she does not love.

The mother's deep love for her exiled son, Giorgis, and her pain and despair over the inexplicable murder of her other son, Christakis, are vividly depicted in Georgios Vizyenou's short story. The return of the exiled son somewhat sweetens her pain, but does not cure her grief. She therefore exhorts Giorgis and her other son, Michael, to search for their brother's murderer and not to leave him unavenged. Of course, she is unaware of who her son's murderer is and searches for him anxiously, at the same time that her Turkish protege, Kiamil, whom she had nursed as her own child, after a dramatic adventure, is also unaware that he is the one who, unwittingly, has killed his benefactor's son. A shocking revelation, which when it comes to light, has tragic consequences...