"Manolios, Dimitra and Giannis met in difficult times. Tell me, life, why do you make the sweetest bonds bitter in the end?"
Three children - wounded and exiled, street urchins - meet, take shelter in an occupied building in Exarcheia and become siblings.
Early '90s, and Athens is wild: rivers of wealth on one side, despair of the night on the other. Heroin, sidewalks, stabbings, brutal poverty.
The three friends struggle to live their youth, but danger lurks all around: ruthless bosses and clients, enemies of the occupations, a phantom serial killer out to clean up the streets - and above all, hidden everywhere, the specter of AIDS, hungry for bodies that ache for love. Twenty-five years later, the only surviving member of the group tells us the unforgettable stories of those times, conversing with the lost friends.
A story about nostalgia and the longing of unjustly treated youth, an anthem to the unquenchable flame of friendship.
"Even when I cry and hurt, I don't wake up the friends who are asleep."
A novel of companionship, laughter and tears. Friend means your heart in another chest.