This children's story for adults is set in the courtyard of a large tenement building. The protagonists are a little girl and a little boy. Their adventures, laced with lyricism and humour, hold up a mirror to the adult world.
It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's mother to kill him.