Her mother describes her as a fragile creature who would spend all her waking hours in her room wearing sunglasses with all the sartorial elegance of precocious stardom, voraciously devouring
every single issue of "Tiger".
At the age of fourteen she purchases her first age defying/ anti-wrinkle cream and a notebook which would go down in the a(n)nals of history as Chronicles of Men:The discreet observations of the other sex.
Two years later, we find her married to the world famous basketball player Chicago Bully in Man-hattan. She later confesses "I was never in love with him and only married him because of my parents' nagging and because Bully was a good boy."
A year after though, when her husband launches into a career of dancing and dazzles the world as Bully Elliot, she has already returned to her homeland to star in a film that would elevate her to the status of Ultimate Diva.
Yet true love still eludes her. When it comes knocking or perhaps banging, three years later, it is in the shape of a well known gherkin producer and mobster, Vaggelis O' Vlasis.
Having already adopted the little Marie from a girl's orphanage in Switzerland and carrying the first-fruit of her loins, a son to be called Kostakis, Jackie chain smokes and works on T.D. Bollockson's new film “Mother Bitch".
The Greek-American producer Bollockson, famous for his austere forms-which had tongues wagging about low budget, is charmed by Jackie during a summer vacation spent on the island of Karystos, when he spots her scolding the adorable yet recalcitrant Marie on a balcony of the hotel “La Belle Karystos”.
Although her film “ Mother Bitch” fails to receive the acclaim of her later films, she does manage to shoot to stardom.
After the birth of her son, Jackie is cast in the role of a lifetime as “Melancholy Bitch". She plays a stupendously rich woman whose life unravels amid conjugal bickering (her fourth husband), servile strife and Olympic-size pools in the heart of affluent South Ekali.
She may be at the height of her career but the fickle finger of fate feels ticklish and tragedy awaits...
edited & translated from Greek by Chrissy V.
