Mia zoi de ftanei

The main character's name is not known. Those who knew him called him the Leader. We first meet him and accompany him on a trip to his home city, where he is to attend an important function. Yet we accompany him also on another journey, one that he embarks on in his head. It is a journey towards his early life in a small provincial town many years back. He remembers the open areas where he used to play, climbing up walls, the Sunday excursions. He remembers his mother, a typical example of a provincial housewife, who considered it her moral duty to distinguish herself in every possible way. He remembers the small pleasures, the small or great fears, his tender love affairs and crazy passions that left indelible marks on his soul. He sees his true friends, the ones who believed in him and stood by him in every step of his life, but also those who fiercely fought against him. Through this funny, serious, and tragic story, through glamour, distinction, and wealth, pain, tears, and hardship, the character daringly embarks on an evaluation of his actions and the events that led up to them. He weighs circumstances, facts, profit and loss, joys and sorrows, coming again and again to the conclusion that a single life is not enough.