Giovanni Astengo is almost forty years old and works for the General Archives of State, where he classifies the diaries of common people. He has a wife, who is dedicated to her career, and two beloved children: Lorenzo, a glowing and generous twenty years old boy, and sweet Stela, a young little girl having the Down syndrome. Giovanni is still tortured from an event from his past: a Sunday morning when he was thirteen, his father disappeared forever, without any explanation.

An August dawn, a "common, a conventional dawn, without any sublimity or special meanings", Giovanni feels like returning to the family country house, the place of his lost happiness that he has abandoned for decades. In the country house, there is a phone made of bakelite. This old and abandoned object becomes the mean that allows him to open a window in time and bring light to a mystery that has marked his entire life.

Translator: Stella Pekiaridi
Publisher: N. & S. Batsioulas
ISBN13: 978-960-89288-7-9	Pages: 152
Publ. date: December/2007	Cover: Soft
Size: 14x21