The debt

A ten-year-old girl of Pontian origin comes with her family from Tashkent, in 1991, to Thessaloniki, after the “perestroika”. Trying to adapt to the new living conditions, to the poverty she inevitably faced, to the new Greek language, to the Greek society of prosperity and demands, she encounters many difficulties and racist challenges.With the strength of her mind and her hard work, she pushes herself, survives, achieves the impossibleand is admitted to the Medical School of Alexandroupolis.Her personal and family history is directly linked to the history of Pontian Hellenism, the sacrifices and the genocide of the Greeks of Pontus, which she relives daily, through the powerful stories of her grandfather and grandmother, at night in the house, representing the national adventures, the persecution, persecution and refuge of the Greeks, first because of the Turks and later because of Stalin. This is followed by persecution by the local inhabitants after the break-up of the Soviet Union and the sickness, the return to the motherland.

The strong love in her life, but also her anti-racist movements, give her a strong lead in the life that awaits her. Eleni is the young overseas Greek doctor, who proves the strength, the ingenuity, but also the adaptability of the Pontian Greek soul, when the economic crisis in our country exhausts young Greek scientists and sends them as immigrants to a foreign land, with unknown conditions and unpredictable future.

Eleni’s personal story causes emotion and optimism to all Greeks.