George Houliaras

The story follows a family of refugees from the early twentieth century through to the Civil War. Through movements, separations, and reunions, personal lives intersect with Greece’s major historical transformations. Space and time are in constant flux, while the characters remain trapped in an unending search for a homeland.

A mysterious man, small-time grifter and big time hard-man has an anarchic tendency to riff on the system, society, police, the underworld itself and other things, along with his beloved bird, Bellafonte, meets up with an odd posse consisting of a young songwriter, a prostitute who gathers money in order to open a bookstore, an alcoholic girl haunted by the relationship with her dead mother, and the grudgey bar-woman-ex-girlfriend. The quintet get caught up in a scheme involving the media, the mob, politicians and the police. And they definitely want to get the hell out of the city, probably to some Caribbean paradise.

Greece is now full of ruins. Everyone is trying to survive at any cost after the disaster. Everyone but Kostas, who, along with his friend Tassos, is looking for Vicky, trying to understand the cause of their separation. The only thing that keeps Kostas in his senses is his love for Vicky. And when Greeks are in love, survival comes second. He will be killed rather by his sorrow - than hunger and other people.