The title of the movie, the phrase “Canary in the coal mine”, is an allusion to caged canaries that miners would carry down into the mine tunnels with them, until the middle of the 1980’s. If dangerous gases such as carbon monoxide collected in the mine, the gases would kill the canary before killing the miners, thus providing a warning to exit the tunnels immediately. In our time, the phrase is used as an idiom, describing something whose sensitivity to adverse conditions makes it a useful early indicator of such conditions; something which warns of the coming of greater danger or trouble by a deterioration in its health or welfare. (source: wiktionary) Part of the film is a re-take, in painting, of a scene from «The Notebook», a 2004 film by Nick Cassavetes. A young couple (Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams) are embracing each other on a beach. When she asks him to, he says: If you’re a bird, I’m a bird”, and they kiss. The bird in the cage that appears, is Mr Orpheus-Pipis, the pet canary of Dimitra Spartali. Angelos Spartalis and Angela Svoronou appear, in Exarchia-Athens, on the 22nd of March 2020, carrying a large photographic work by Svoronou, «Untitled (Homage to J.W.M. Turner)», an archival photographic print 120×120 cm mounted on dibond. This work belongs to the series «Landscapes Behind» which inspired Spartalis to write the poem «Hugs» (The Facebook Poet, Iamvos, 2013) that is heard in the beginning of the film..