This will of people to live, despite suffering, despite need, deprivation, endless poverty and hunger, is omnipresent in the diary, as well as in the life of each of us: day in 1942 in snowy Athens. This is the moment when the inner perception of the world, the delight in front of silently and thickly falling snowflakes outweighs the gloomy everyday life. This is the moment when an inner insight cancels, if only for a moment, history. This is the moment when microhistory bypasses public, official history.”

Special mention is made of sports, which in that sad era played a key role in keeping up the spirit of youth, especially Sporting CP, a club “which will play a therapeutic and heroic role for the youth of the region.” [της Πατησίων] during the war years” and PAO: “Usually, most of the matches are played at the Panathinaikos stadium, which still has no Sunday when I would not visit it.”

The book, captivating in its reading, sometimes melancholic, a journey through the landscapes of memory, with the omnipresent Athens, of course, this matrix of new palimpsest narratives.