The idea to write, in conversation with Manos Eleftheriou, his biographical (novel)story came to us as good ideas do. By chance, one August evening during our shared vacation in 2010. We had already known him for a few years, having developed a friendly relationship. However, we knew him well, many years before this acquaintance, through his work, which had marked our youth. When we revealed our intentions to him in September of the same year, he did not give a clear response. He only said: "I expect you on Sunday at 10:30." Thus, for the next three years, we met on Sunday mornings at his house in Neo Psychiko, and he, sitting in his armchair, prompted by our questions, let his memory flow effortlessly to places where remembrance and emotion took him.

"I remember leaving school and going home to write the same poem a hundred times. I had discovered how to write the same thing in different ways, something that stayed with me all my life."