Kostas Hatzopoulos is one of the leading figures in Greek Literature and a pioneering advocate of socialist ideology in our country. With his literary work - in verse and prose - he brought new tones to modern Greek literature.

His ethnographic narrative "The Tower of Akropotamos" was published in 1915. It is characterized by its deep social element and realistic depiction of reality. It takes place in a provincial town in Western Sterea. It embraces middle-class and urban social layers, vividly depicting life in the countryside, as well as the overall social climate of the country during the reign of George I. It concerns the dissolution of a provincial family, which takes place against the backdrop of a primitive life of a population living in indescribable poverty and inhumane abandonment, where favoritism and transactions determine everything. The provincial himself and his fate are a living symbol of the degradation of political morals. K. Hatzopoulos also presents, in a secondary role, the drama of the Greek countryside, which is ravaged by robbery, as well as the antics of the soldiers returning to the countryside, mocking the poor people and trying to kill any deserter in order to gain promotions...

In this atmosphere, with the dissolution of a middle-class family as its focal point, K. Hatzopoulos brings to life the drama of the lives of the poor girls of the people. The three daughters of the provincial Krania, with their only material asset being the questionable stability of their father's bureaucratic position, begin dreaming and aspiring to their family's restoration through relationships with wealthy boys and military officers.

However, marriage is a commercial enterprise and the death of their parents, which leads them to extreme poverty, forces them to limit their demands to privates and sergeants, in order to end up clinging to someone - even to the lonely schoolteacher... so as not to become old maids on the "shelf".