It is the author's journey into the world of Medicine and specifically transplants.

The ultimate combination of family - island - tradition with distinction, but always based on contribution.

And this combination leads away from Greece and the dead-end decades of the '60s and '70s.

So, migration to America.

A struggle for survival.

A struggle for distinction and ultimately victory.

Later return to Greece, with an active role in the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center.

Unexpected developments in the second migration. Why?

Because Ithaca was not "poor" and the "Laestrygonians and Cyclopes" had settled here and not in the seas.

And yet the mission was fulfilled, the ultimate combination of distinction and contribution.