Giorgos Ziakas

26th of September 1999. Alekos is dead. His teenage granddaughter, Margarita, refuses to attend his funeral and takes advantage of her parents’ absence to throw a small party at home. Three days earlier, unaware that this would be his last night, Alekos attends a reunion of old friends to celebrate the birthday of Lula, his first love, who now suffers from dementia.

On their last night on a Greek party island, a restless young man abandons his childhood friends to sail with a solitary fisherman—seeking freedom in the open sea, only to find himself truly alone.

Thomas works as a taxi driver by night and he lives with his wife, Maria, and his teenage son, Tassos. When one of his customers commits suicide, Thomas is prompted to confront everything he’s kept buried inside for too long, and realize the shortcomings of his life. When he meets Eleni, his client’s lost daughter, he sees in her a way out of his weary life and becomes romantically obsessed with her.

1952, Cryopigi, Xanthi. Marika vows never to leave her sisters, Vasiliki, Frosso and Despinio. But in pursuit of a better life, the girls end up as maids in different homes. Will they manage to survive and merge again?