Andria Zeniou

A short film set in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean divided by war and characterized by people on both sides, both Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot, waiting and hoping for a resolution and some, waiting and hoping for missing loved ones to return. This is the story of one such woman.

Love and loss, dreams and grief, all manifest themselves in a place between life and death as a desperate woman’s song to the siren hinders her attempt to take her life. The first musical made in Cyprus featuring songs and score by award winning Nikolas Metaxas and Alexis Leonidou.

Ioli is a romantic and sensitive mermaid who lives in her underwater home somewhere in the Amvrakikos Gulf among squid, snappers, sea urchins, seals and other sea creatures. With her lives her little sister Callirroi, who has one and only desire: to lose her virginity.