A 50 year old journalist, son of a civil war hero, who died fighting for the right forces is shattered, when he recognizes him in a documentary, fighting for the communists. He starts searching for the truth, despite his family's objections, who fear that they will lose privileges if the status of the dead changes after the search.
Tras la entrada del Ejército Rojo en Odessa (1921), los refugiados griegos vuelven a su país. Comienza entonces la historia de amor entre Alexis y Eleni, que se criaron juntos. Pero el padre de Alexis, que se siente muy solo tras la muerte de su mujer, desaprueba ese amor porque él querría casarse con Eleni. Por esta razón, los dos jóvenes abandonan el pueblo para ir a Salónica, aunque acabarán vagando por toda Grecia sin rumbo fijo. Primera parte de la trilogía que Angelopoulos dedicó a la historia de Grecia en el siglo XX.
Three stories dealing with three men and their stance towards life, given their personal background. All stories are held in Northern Greece (Macedonia and Thrace), covering all the spectrum from urban to rural settings.
"4th century AD and a brilliant craftsman of Dionysus, Timothy, organizes a performance of Euripides' Bacchae, rousing the people against the emperor. Lazarus, the Cappadocian, is sent to suppress the rebellion and arrest the heretic. We are in the years of the total establishment of Christianity, in a climate full of sects, conspiracies, conflicts of power and personal ambitions, in the city of Antioch, which was the last cradle of the Greek education of the Gentiles."
