2006-2008. We travel with the "Selino". A small, silent ship. It gives you the impression that you are being ferried to isolation, to punishment. The passengers are always few: the locals, those that were chosen by the island and the "others", those that chose the island.
What keeps people at the ends? The southernmost island of Europe has 55 permanent inhabitants and 17 churches. There are four public servants: the priest, the teacher, the doctor and the policeman. Its monuments are the abandoned houses, the ruins. This is a place to "hide" and think, to search for "meaning" or to ask the question.
Gavdos is a place that makes you look into the distance, to the horizon, with an intense awareness of the end and the beginning. Of borders. I remember my Russian friends: "Cultures change, dwelling collapse, but the stones out of which they were built remain intact...".