Τα παιδιά της Νιόβης

Katina a smart Smirnia, lives in slums. Atarti introduces her to magic. Erotic filters prove to be infallible. She marries four men, one better than the other. Her spells were found in a dusty trunk, 100 years later at her home in Egina.

In the fall of 1948, shortly before the end of the civil war in Greece, six young leftists traveled to Athens, boarded a plane to Thessaloniki, and forced the pilot to fly them to neighboring Yugoslavia, where they would seek political asylum along with other comrades. Their plan went off without a hitch and went down in history as the first hijacking ever.

Tormented by his memories, the writer Kostantis Manolopoulos takes stock of his life. Lost loves, old enmities, secret desires outline the Greece of the '50s, a Greece full of mothers, aunts, friends, enemies who share their lives in the neighborhoods, in the cafes and in the brothels. Among them, the writer's friend, Louis, tries to show him in every way that in this world, anything can happen...

Returning from a business trip to Rhodes, Markos finds out that his sick son has been kidnapped. He agrees to pay the ransom that the kidnappers demand but the police officer Makridis sees that the money used is marked so they can track them down.

Athens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign powers, on the occasion of the "Polk Case", where an innocent leftist was convicted for the murder of an American journalist in Greece.