Spyros Haralabous

Mairy, a thirty-year-old woman from Philippines, works in a village in Cyprus. She takes care of Mr. Michalis, an eigthy-five-year-old man with arteriosclerosis. Mr. Michalis spends his days in front of the television, watching time and again a soap opera with a heroine named Anna. He soon becomes obsessed with this heroine, to the point of calling Mairy 'Anna', despite the remarks of his daughter Melpo. When Mairy finds some old photographs she makes an important discovery...

Forty years after the invasion, Zehra, a Turkish Cypriot woman, visits her beloved Greek Cypriot neighbour, Maroula, in the southern part of Cyprus. She hopes to thank Maroula’s son, who saved their lives during the events of 1974, and to find out where her own son is buried. Although her questions remain unanswered, the truths that emerge about their shared losses bring the two women closer than ever.

On the last night in August, Nikos will make love for the first time. When September dawns, Maria will start her new life.