"I placed my characters in glittering nouveau-riche environments but in lower middle-class ones too. They cross Athens in gasping taxis and the countryside in huge jeeps that hurdle mud. They conspire counting bundles of money and try to escape all of it on their knees in the washrooms of drinking joints... The Voice is not about the underworld; it is about the vague demimonde that dominated our society for decades. The human fauna: shady businessmen, neighbourhood upstart social-climbers, party-girls who use sex as a gift and a tool, as well as boys who reinvent their manhood in ever-changing conditions..."
