The Only Journey of his Life (Greek: Το μόνον της ζωής του Ταξείδιον) is a short-novel of the Greek writer Georgios Vizyinos (also written Yeoryios Vizyinos[1]), released in 1884.
The narrator of the story is a ten years boy from a village of Eastern Thrace.
Then he discovered that his grandfather had never gone a journey and all the stories he was saying were the fairy tales of his mother.
The reason was that in those years, the Turks enlisted in the janissary army many children of Christians, obligatorily.
It was also Greece's official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 75th Academy Awards, but did not manage to receive a nomination.