This is a personal travel book around Greece and about the Greeks, an exploration of contemporary Greece, a picture of a changed society since the last generation. The essentials of language, landscape and culture are still present and the traditional patterns of Greek life in the family and community in many ways remain constant throughout the years of social change. The author looks at the interaction between past and present, and what faces the Greek people in the future, as their country faces the 21st century with some economic and social problems.