"The provinces? You should see what goes on there. If you 're an Athenian you've screwed them all. I was a lieutenant in the reserves, stationed at Alexandroupolis, and almost collapsed out of sheer exhaustion. I would take the jeep and roam around. I left nothing... The only girl who proved difficult was Despina, in a village outside Alexandroupolis. She wouldn't let me get near her. A real wildcat. Her father had the village coffee house. A country bumpkin. How was I to get her alone? But I persisted. Every chance I got I was at her old man 's for beers. Finally she succumbed. What else could she have done?
Twenty year-old Despina's attempt to get away from life in the provinces, her meeting with Giorgos who is doing his military service, their travels together, the hard bargaining that goes on between them and at dawn the end of this blind flight. |