Le jardinier
"Everything will be fine" the doctor promised Jo while she was giving birth to her first child. But, some forty years and four sons later, nothing is happening like it should be during this month of August: as she arrives on Greek soil to organize her traditional festival with her tribe, Jo learns that the latter has been cancelled, courtesy of the economic crisis. The hour seems to be tragic but the maternal instinct grows stronger, she is ready to do everything for the happiness of her sons. Between squabbles and blood and destiny blows, this summer will be like no other.
Papas
Αντώνης
Shortly before the end of the Greek Civil War, in 1948, the border villages are evacuated to facilitate the movements of the Hellenic Army. Margaritis, a villager in his forties, is forced to leave his home and travel to Thessaloniki with his two children. He takes up residence in the Karavan Sarai (a building requisitioned for this purpose) and tries in vain to remain unaffected by the unspeakable events unfolding around him.
Antonis
Set during the Greek civil war. A villager is forced to leave his house and property and go to Thessaloniki with his daughter and son. They find refuge in an old building with hundreds of other people. They live a miserable life as the daughter becomes a whore, and the son has to work.
A tanner, swamped with debts, must abandon his trade and go work in the local factory.
Michalis returns to the tobacco growers of his rural village after having spent some time in the city and persuades them to form a collective, rather than suffer the poverty-inducing prices they are paid for their crops by tobacco brokers. They agree not to sell to any of the brokers and start to form a farmers' group. When one of the farmers breaks the agreement and is found dead, Michalis is accused. However, rather than expose the farmers' plight and give publicity to the brokers' greed, the motive the government gives for the killing is thi asimanton aformin, for unimportant reasons.
