The plains are not spectacular. In their monotony, irrigating on their extensive lands, they stoically farm all that this country produces in abundance. There, no tourist attractions and no outdoor activities make up an interesting way of life. On the map you can see the veins and arteries of the transportation network as you would see them if you were able to fly. A bird would have noticed the 2 trains moving in opposite colliding directions. Their operators were dealing with mechanisms that are beyond human dimensions and perception. On the night of February 28, 2023, exiting into the plains from a tunnel, 67 souls were stopped to pursue their dreams and meet with their loved ones. From the early hours of the morning the shock spread throughout the country. Thousands of people gather for blood donations for the injured and evening mourning walks in their cities. Artists and students from art schools and theatres under occupation join the demonstrations and strikes in the coming days. The government is responding with repression and police violence. All railways in Greece are closed. In my archive I found prints of photos I had taken in 2001 during the filming-research of a documentary, travelling in the Thessalian plain with the last train before the abolition of the old line from Paleofarsala to Kalambaka. Portraits of people who used to inhabit the train as part of their daily landscape. It was literally "their" train connecting the villages, on which we spent a week listening to their stories. Back then, there was room for different emotions, for all the ups and downs that life brings, there was time for all of life. Traveling, now by bus, to Thessaloniki, I cross the plains of today, a haunting landscape. Near the point of the collision, a few meters away on a parallel course, the driver slows down. SILENCE. Like on the march under rain the evening following the collision, in the streets of Athens. Access to the train station - as an architectural symbol - is blocked by riot police. A country in mourning tries to express its feelings. A generation is fighting for their right to life, to education, to emotions, to the human dimension of time. A society with tears in its eyes, with courage and rage, is being devalued, violently excluded, suppressed, dismantled. We had not even buried our dead yet. This project was made in a state of mourning, as an inner urge to express the intense feelings of loss, sadness and despair, of anger, fear and violence, of strength and an incredible wish to live. It consists of 1)Analogue photography portraits, during the last routes of the train on the old Volos-Kalambaka line, 2001 (During research and filming for an unfinished documentary, directed by Vassilis Loules) 2)Photographs at the Athens Railway Station and at the demonstrations in Athens after the train collision, March 2023 3)Landscape photos, the plain in spring of 2023 4)GREEK Text in coverphoto: GUILTY - RAGE GREEK Text in last picture: ITS NOT AN ACCIDENT - ITS MURDER - OUR LIVES MATTER The Names of the 67 people who lost their lives in the train collision at Tempi, 28 February 2023