Kostas Mourselas, one from the most important Greek writers of the post-war generation, wrote 'Reaching Extremes', wanting, as he says, to detect through the micrography of a family the deeper causes leading a relationship to decay. Through the couple he chooses to present to make his social analysis and through the collision of man-woman, he proposes that relationships are not corrupted only by habit or psychological problems disturbing the balances but mainly by the social problems such as the fight for survival and social rise.