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Nineteen-year-old Sokol Profka leaves his homeland.
In Enver Hoxha's anachronistic Albania, he can no longer live. Poverty and oppression are not for him.
He takes the risky decision to cross the "locked borders" of his homeland in the company of three other companions.
The risk is very high because in totalitarian Albania, anyone who decides to cross the border becomes a direct enemy of the homeland. He is characterized by the regime as a traitor, a criminal, a deserter.
But Sokol, determined for everything, takes the path of alienation. He arrives in Greece in the summer of 1991, with seventy drachmas in his pocket, no identity card and no luggage. Only with the clothes he wears and a dream...
To live free.
The book, based on a true story, is a diary that records Sokol's journey from a small muddy village in Albania, Marinez, to the moment he set foot in a big city in Greece. Thessaloniki.
The hero of the story vividly narrates the journey he made on foot, three times, from one homeland to the other, but mainly he rawly describes the emotions he experienced during his life in both Albania and Greece.
The story leaves a bittersweet taste through humor and melancholy, anger and relief, joy and pain that alternate in a setting that the reader is easily transported through the gaze of the protagonist.