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Eleni: Abandoned by her real mother when she was still a baby, she was adopted by a childless family. She’s been sick for over fifteen years and has been institutionalized in the Dromokaitio psychiatric clinic of Athens. Presently, she is on medication and takes advantage of her free time by studying literature. © Maro Kouri
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Pavlos: Wearing a captain’s hat on his head and a military shirt with shoulder straps and medals, he immediately attracts people’s gazes. He gives out speeches on morality and always knows what time it is from the numerous watches he wears on both hands. © Maro Kouri
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SOSO, WHO STILL BELIEVES IN KINGS AND QUEENS
Mrs. Soso, pedagogue at a college in her youth, and bank employee afterwards, lost her sense of reason when her mother died twenty years ago. Eighty-seven years old today, she is employed at the Center for reception of the homeless of Athens, sweeps the yard and recites poems from memory. 
 © Maro Kouri
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Mitsos: He wanders aimlessly around Mitropoli square, wrapped in a thick wool overcoat with no indication of being bothered by the season’s high temperature. © Maro Kouri
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SOSO, WHO STILL BELIEVES IN KINGS AND QUEENS
Mrs. Soso, pedagogue at a college in her youth, and bank employee afterwards, lost her sense of reason when her mother died twenty years ago. Eighty-seven years old today, she is employed at the Center for reception of the homeless of Athens, sweeps the yard and recites poems from memory. 
 © Maro Kouri
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Barbara: She walks hunched, carrying various shopping bags in each hand, and every 50 meters she stops to check her looks in a small mirror that she always carries. © Maro Kouri
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Haralambos: He makes jewelry from plastic beads and fishing lines that you’d really have to be a philanthropist to buy. He, however, introduces himself as a gardener and a philosopher. © Maro Kouri
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Antonis: Athens traffic jams make him nervous. He stands at traffic lights, trying to give directions in order to ease the flow of vehicles. © Maro Kouri
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THEODORA, THE SUBVERSIVE
Theodora has been living on the streets for over 20 years. She is a chain smoker and continuously keeps scratching herself because of the fleas that bother her. She sends out messages of social revolt and never forgets to express her ecological concerns. 
 © Maro Kouri
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STELLA
She has washed dishes for four years on boats and for another six at a psychiatric institution. She used to sell donuts but gambled all her savings at the race track. She claims that some gypsies put an unknown virus in her coffee, which has done her irreparable damage.
 © Maro Kouri
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Greece, Athens, Pangrati suburb. 50 year old diabetic Theodoros has a beatiful voice but his tung roles only when he sings. He cannot speak normal. He usually drinks around ten refreshments in a coffeeshop after eating about a kilo of chocolates. Neighbors say that when he was 7-years old his behavior changed suddenly... © Maro Kouri
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STELLA
She has washed dishes for four years on boats and for another six at a psychiatric institution. She used to sell donuts but gambled all her savings at the race track. She claims that some gypsies put an unknown virus in her coffee, which has done her irreparable damage.
 © Maro Kouri
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Athens: Antonis sniffs heroin for the last 28 years. He has lived in Belgium and Chicago. Once, he got married but couldn’t produce a child. He returned to drugs. The last four years he lives under the abandoned and rusty automatic stairs of Klafthmonos central square
 © Maro Kouri
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