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“Do not worry,” she told him.

“Do not worry for now. Everything is done properly, even if it is nobody’s achievement. And the colors that merge on top of the sky, they will become one as well.

That’s why I’m telling you, do not worry for now.

We have lived together too many hours like this. As friends, as spouses. Lovers, like strangers.

And all things became one. Asparagus with cream, salt into water.

And red wine, warm.

And us, still warm. Still beautiful and young.

Since life entails courage, let’s celebrate it. It also entails fear; to take it seriously.

Its little ones, its pieces, small bits of it; these too, let’s celebrate them seriously.

Do not worry. You have me and I have you, now and forever.”

The quarantine was a period of high tensions for many couples that experienced the ‘tyranny’ of being so close for so long. However, for several others the quarantine became a period of rapprochement and emotional reawakening. Evita Skourleti depicts in a unique way how one reappropriates their partner, and uses the symbolic figures of Mr. and Mrs. Freud (Nikos Kouris and Elena Topalidou, respectively) for that purpose, with an Athenian yard as a background.