Return

Teresa’s return to the town she visited nine years ago symbolizes the interplay between memory, loss, and the impossibility of recapturing the past. Her revisit highlights how experiences are shaped by circumstance and how the meaning of people and places shifts over time: Petros’s new dog, the unchanged town, and her inability to recreate the revelation at the fortress all underscore that the past cannot be fully recovered. The return also represents an attempt at reconciliation: with her own history, with grief over her parents, and with unresolved emotions tied to relationships such as those with Tom, John, and Petros.

Relationship with Niko

Teresa’s relationship with Niko symbolizes her struggle between preordained identity and personal desire. The affair is out of character, reflecting how her life often feels scripted by circumstance rather than choice, and it exposes her impulse to analyse rather than...