Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Grecia sufre la ocupación de las tropas nazis. En esas circunstancias, una compañía teatral realiza una gira por el país, aunque sus representaciones se ven continuamente interrumpidas por los conflictos políticos. Por otra parte, una de las actrices intenta vengarse de su madre a la que responsabiliza de la muerte de su padre. Su hermano, un partisano, la ayudará a satisfacer sus propósitos.
An adaptation of one of the greatest greek novellas ('The Murderess' by Alexandros Papadiamantis). Fragkogiannou (Maria Alkaiou), a hard-done by, deranged woman after a life full of hardship, recalls the past by her newborn girl grandchild’s crib. Her mother was a wicked woman and one of her sons was a criminal. Lost in a haze, she strangles the baby as she is concvinced that girls can cause their family only trouble. Later, she lets a little girl drown in a well, while she drowns three other little girls, one of whom is a newborn baby. This is her way of sparing children and parents of the inevitable suffering in life.
A surreal, anarchic and plotless movie about a man who tries to take up his dead father's business, taking aim against contemporary Greek reality. Banned by the Greek dictatorship.
