AMONG THE ROCKS

In Among the Rocks, thirty-three women testify about the persecution they and their families suffered following the ratification of the Varkiza Peace Agreement on 2 February 1945. To save themselves, many joined the Democratic Army, while others were arrested and imprisoned or sent into exile. The film attempts to reveal the role of a social group which, voiceless until now, has been ignored by official written history. As a relatively new discipline, oral history investigates first-hand accounts and the experiences of ordinary people in order to shed light on the past and on historical potential that was never fulfilled. In this film, the “voiceless” group are Women.