The citizens of Athens are tormented by insomnia. Rumor has it that after dark an elusive creature is roaming the city streets. The film’s characters will cross its path during one night and for the first time in a while, they’ll go to sleep.
Aris and Anna meet one evening in a half-abandoned town surrounded by antennas. In this strange, dreamlike world, the two solitary souls gradually start to develop feelings for one another.
Six chapters describe the lives and perils of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community which was almost entirely exterminated by the Nazis in 1943. Past and present become an echo chamber in which the viewer experiences, aghast, the madness of humanity.
At a Greek hotel in the off-season, a chambermaid, a man obsessed with BMW cars, and a photo-store clerk attempt to film and photograph various badly re-enacted struggles between a man and a woman.
A young man loses his name and is driven to a specialist, a "nameologist" doctor, in order to be given a name.
A kid who wants to play with his friends, a woman trying to avoid her husband, and an everyday guy who's been owed money, all try to find the courage to escape manipulation, while a "giant alien flying object" starts falling from the sky.
