For track and field champion Dimitra Arahoviti, the 100m hurdles event served as a metaphor for life.

Vivian Papageorgiou is a beautiful, ethereal girl who captivates you as she speaks. She looks deeply into your eyes while she tells the story of her life, with a restrained smile on her face as she recounts every chilling detail.

As Chiara Koskina shares her struggle with anorexia nervosa, she speaks steadily but slowly. Her tone is quietly optimistic, without exaggeration or outbursts, whether she is speaking about something disagreeable or something more pleasant. This may be because Chiara will always be on her guard.

In her post diabetic crisis period, Maria Kalkakou has become a new woman, an entirely different person with an enviable grasp on how a new universe can be formed in life, with bright stars that have a distinctive shine, a singular texture, and an extraordinary form but are, nonetheless, always present.

Gogo is a pragmatic fighter, a simple normal person whose entire life was turned upside down and who nonetheless refused to surrender.

In the difficult, crucial moments of life, strength, courage and fearlessness come from within, from the very depth of our soul. In life, we witness people performing miracles in situations as inconceivably tragic as war, migration through rough waves in the open sea or abject poverty.