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When there are people

I was married eight years ago... and just last night I experienced, for the first time, the storm of emotions that shook me and transformed me into a true woman. And I reflect that deep within my gender, within the roots of instinct, lay the woman in slumber, waiting for the right man to awaken her, breathing consciousness and life into a new being.

This new being is now me! This is what Ismini Kontaxi writes in her diary a year before the declaration of the Greco-Italian War. Later, during the Occupation, she will often find herself uncertain between night and light and will desperately seek a reason to lean on... But she will never stop looking at the moon with eyes full of dreams.

Seven years after the end of the war, she will find herself facing a new beginning. And then she will try to understand the people she interacted with during the wild days of the Occupation, when human life had no value.

An exciting novel that sends the message that when there are people with respect and faith in high values, we can only hope for a true spring after the whirlwind of winter.