I’ll make you queen

In a small mountain village in central Greece, the chronicle of a family spanning four generations is presented. Love delineates its power over the protagonists, but also entangles in its sinful tentacles the secondary figures of the play. The protagonist is Valia, a bourgeois who has the habits of Athens, but is caught up in the beauty of her small village and the presence of an untouchable world, full of simplicity and faith, where naivety and simplicity of life occupy a peculiar place. Here crime and superstition in its most blasphemous form are mixed with the divine and add to the faces of the small society psychosomatic characteristics constructed by the most extreme naturalism. The second character in the play is Constantine, a small simple-minded shepherd boy who is also overcome by the feeling of love and trapped by the aristocratic and unfamiliar to him habits that reach his village as an echo of the big cities, but who holds within him a polemic against the bourgeois world and a suspicion of anything new. He explains it all with a metaphysical anger, and a fearful scepticism. Everything in his mind is symbolic. There is always a relationship between signifier and signified. This particular one is a tragic figure within the development of the play and he is lost very young fighting in the Cypriot struggle. However, everything is revealed after his loss and this is contributed to by a third character in the play, Paul, who is the link between Constantine and Valia.