Synopsis:

In this diary, Daphne presents herself as developing like a tree that while still sprouting forth its first fruit at the gateway to adolescence, is forced to cut off its ties with the land. She follows her parents from Greece to America but when they die the need to join the branches to the original tree trunk becomes more intense. She returns to Greece to "find what she had lost and in the end discovers that there are no places without losses". Symbolically, the apple-tree she used to climb and lay claim to the piece of sky above was cut down. She realizes that her parents' home no longer belongs to her or her relatives but to those who built it and who no longer exist. She confines herself to a life in limbo, to a piece of sky, the only thing she has acquired herself but which, however, does not cease to be a step towards freedom.