Rena

Author Augustos Korto

"I'm saying, my boy, I'm an old whore. To understand, I've even gone with Karyotakis."

Rena is pressed one hundred times, and one morning she makes coffee and sits down to tell her life to a young visitor, who happened to see her photo in a newspaper. Born in the early 20th century in a brothel in Chafteia, a prostitute and herself from the age of twelve, Rena has her only love guide: the love for Marco, who throws her into the Party, for Roula, who reveals to her the other side of love, for Vassilis, who picks up the wreckage of her life and gives her a breath of hope before the deep darkness. And from hug to hug, from passion to passion, Rena inadvertently becomes part of the story - a bewildered dot in the crowd, from the tobacco workers' strike in Salonika and its bloody end to December, the exile to the Xeronis, the Polytechnic uprising. And Rena lights another cigarette, refills the glass, kicks the tangle of her story - and the memory comes alive, she becomes friends. A heart like a camera shutter, whose every beat photographs what you have to remember.