Nazim Hikmet wrote his play while he was living in the USSR and its subject is inspired by soviet reality. Petrov, o good soviet citizen, head of the most important department in his town, is being slowly corrupted by the sweetness of power and is transformed to an unrecognizable bureaucrat. The temptation appears to him in the form of a mysterious person, Ivan Inanovich, who uses all means to accomplish his object: the transformation of this serious man, the former fighter with the unswerving principals, to a puppet wandering with excess pomposity and articulating sonorous speeches. Hikmet, with a clearly poetic language, exercises his well-meaning criticism to the huge scourge that is bureaucracy. The essence of the play, however, beyond the references to the specific society, treats the relation of a person with himself, from the moment when he begins obtaining power over the others. (The director: Ersi Vasilikioti)