Nikos Kolioukos

Panos is about to rob a seemingly empty house. But an unexpected meeting will make him reconsider the reason he's there.

In an isolated mountain village, a teenage girl and her father coexist in silence and unspoken emotions, until their fragile balance begins to unravel.

Anna, in her late twenties, feels like her life is sliding away from her hands. A ticket to a music school in Paris might be the last chance to pursue her dream unless her manipulative, self-destructive alcoholic father stands in her way.

Thessaloniki, October 1949. The Greek Civil War is supposedly over, but its impact is still felt by the people and a great divide exists between them. Antonis, the owner of the tavern “Makedonikon,” stays neutral and tries to distance himself from politics. But dreadful news summons his most feared childhood experience. While the war, the decade and a whole epoch come to an end, the band of musicians play their last classic rembetika songs. And for Antonis the time for revenge has come.

Six chapters describe the lives and perils of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community which was almost entirely exterminated by the Nazis in 1943. Past and present become an echo chamber in which the viewer experiences, aghast, the madness of humanity.

"My name is Simeon the Madman. From now on, I will only speak my true language. I will go back to the city I remember and with the power of God, I will mock the world".