Daphne Manousou

The Long Island is the place of our self-exile. The Nightmare is our Father. Speaking and Hearing is the Nightmare’s gift to all of us. Silence is our gift to him. The Family protects us from Infection and Taxidermists. The soil will be the point of return. Tomorrow is today. Today is the 13th day of the Blue Year 37.

Niki is a resistance fighter living in a nightmarish dictatorship in Athens, 1972, and Lefteris is her son, who will be forced sooner or later to cut the thread that binds them together.

May 1895. Our story begins when the family of George Pavlides engages their 12-year-old son, Miltos, with the 9-year-old daughter of Michalis Nikolaidis, Ifigenia. The attacks of fanatical Turks will force the two families to flee their homeland. The two youngsters will meet again in Istanbul 11 years later. Unaware of the family relationship that binds them, they instantly fall in love. The two lovers try to live their love, while being dragged by the whirlwind of historical events of the time.

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