Sotiris Tsakomidis

Slices of life with the former Hellinikon International Airport of Athens as a background, short before the casino is built. A couple in a car at night, a grandma peeling green beans, two gravediggers passing by; people that seemingly are not connected to each other. Among them a little boy, whose toy airplane gets stuck on a huge palm-tree. He‘ll do anything to get it back.

In the streets of fear, residents are searching for their local “heroes.” Bodies become docile, desires are suppressed and Alexandros remains a child of his age, against the imperatives of the era, of society and – above all – against the will of his father. Alexandros will need to abandon his teenage self once and forever and choose sides in an undeclared war, in a present shaped by others for him.

A seaman finds himself out of work and stranded in a distant port. He shares a cheap room. They take turns sleeping, some in the morning, some at night. Grief! When he will go back to sea? And there! The scent of woman drifts up to seduce him! He realizes he had shared his bed with a lady of the night.