How a person becomes a writer. Or: love, poetry, Paris, nostalgia for roots, Greece, the meaning of life, the open horizons of the world - all these may be nothing more than different names and successive stages of the same unique search. And still: how this person changes, day by day, from his romantic and naive adolescence to the painfully conquered maturity, and how, through constant twists and disappointments, the image of the place and the world changes within him - how his solitary existential adventure is intertwined with the turbulent Greek history of the period 1960-1985 and with the anthropological revolution that transformed, in the same footsteps, the bodies and souls of all of us. At every step of this journey, the hero never ceases to seek a "we" that constantly eludes him, until he finally realizes that he may be able to touch it, where he no longer dared to imagine it - this final twist is hinted at by the precious title of the book. [...]