A 36-year-old mathematician, who grew up in America and lives with his mother's unquenchable memory, searches for his ancestral traces in the distant and distant past. The journey of memory will begin with family narratives of armed resistance against the colonels (guns will have their say in the post-communist years), move to East Germany and the dark games of the Stasi services just before the collapse of communism, and end with the Greek struggle for liberation from the Ottoman yoke. A journey through the most diverse experiences: University conflicts in America, conflicts within the Leftist organizations during the dictatorship in Greece, endless games of backgammon in the bustling bazaars of the Middle East, suspicions of betrayal of a great love, life inside the besieged Tripolitsa of 1821-and all this while fires rage in Pylos and a crisis is about to break out.