Director
The Alceste (Betty Livanos) is a fifty-year woman with two daughters, who still retains the youthful glow of years. The decision to follow her lover to England resulted completely disrupt relations with Mika (Christiana Matzouranis), her great daughter. When Alcestis decides to settle in Greece, wants to make a new beginning with her daughters. But Mika confronts her icily, and never accepted behavior of her mother. A legacy in Galaxidi addressed Alcestis and her daughters, imposing the coexistence of the family. Only that Mika has decided to send a representative to husband, Marino (Haris Romas), a winemaker ... Behind the aggressive attitude of Marino for the charming mother of hiding a strange eroticism to unforeseen development, which causes many comical situations ...
Casting
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.
