She learned how to live with the pain of loss in a foreign land

Koula Machera from Agioi Anargyroi in Kozani has spent more than sixty years in Australia. Sixty years filled with sorrows but also joys, hardships, but also emotional moments. A child of post-war Greece, still recovering from the wounds of two World Wars, the young hairdresser decided to try her luck in the Antipodes. There, she met Christos, the man who made her forget – albeit temporarily – the anguish of leaving her homeland. However, fate had different plans for the couple…