In February 1963, Anna, now a senior in the eighth-grade high school, participates in a rally in the center of Athens, where schoolchildren and students claim better education. Amidst the noise of "One-One-Four", she relives her early years in Athens, when he had just
arrived with her family from the countryside and discovered the harsh side of the city. And while the rally develops into a confrontation between students and the police, Anna, who had never been involved in politics before, finds herself, without wanting it, in the center of the confrontation and realizes that all life, no matter how one pursues, it is after all a political struggle!
The novel is the third part of the tetralogy Anna, then and always, where we follow Anna's life from the late 50s, when she was still a girl growing up in the countryside, to the mid-70s, immediately after the junta . At the same time, we live with her in the turbulent 60s in Athens, where she had moved.