My starting point was a small newspaper item I read four years ago about the double suicide of two sisters in their late thirties. Their bodies, found some time later, were hastily buried. What impressed me most in this item. was the extreme loneliness of these women plus their absolute isolation from their social environment. A simple storyline: the two sisters have left their village some time ago and moved into a flat in Athens. Their only relative is a cousin, a painter who lives in Paris. Bound to each other by an almost pathological affection , they also share a secret infatuation for their cousin. On his return to Athens the drama reaches a climax. The older sister commits suicide while the younger one goes abroad with him. The characters, both realistic and poetical, try to fulfill their desires in an impossible relation on the borderline of melodrama.