Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman, is miserable in the narrow-minded town in which she’s living. While Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of…

Six chapters describe the lives and perils of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community which was almost entirely exterminated by the Nazis in 1943. Past and present become an echo chamber in which…

Abandoned at birth in the Greek mountains on a stormy night, Jon is taken in and adopted, without having known his father or mother. As a young man, he meets…