In the framework of the 2013 Passa Porta Festival, deBuren has invited authors from Portugal, Spain and Greece to come and reflect on the festival theme ‘Imagine’ in the context of a Europe in crisis. Southern Europe has to pay for it. The dreams for the future of a whole generation can be put on ice if we are to believe the media. What is the invited authors’ vision of the crisis? Is it all downhill from here on or can the changing Europe perhaps offer some hope?