A man writes a play, hoping that it will help him understand the dramatic events his son lived in Greece.
"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly criss-crossed the Balkans and, without regard for national and ethnic strife, recorded the region's history and customs. Did these primitive, never-developed images really exist?
Stella
It is a story of a normal, everyday Greek family that each member turns out to be wacko or gets wacko by the other members. The father is the stoic figure that accepts everything. The mother has a middle age crisis and takes advantage of her husbands inability. The older brother is a doctor of psychology and has everything under control (or believe so) and the younger brother does nothing with his life acclaiming that he is a filmmaker.
Young Giannis escapes from prison and hides in a deserted factory, with the dream of traveling far away. At the factory, a group of university students rehearse Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, and a girl from the group discovers him. The students accept him into their group, offering him a part in the play as well. One night, three young men try to destroy the props for the theatrical performance, and Giannis tries to stop them, ending up back in prison. The students manage to get him out of jail, and he embarks on a ship and leaves far away.
Alexandre's Friend
A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.
This is a series of intersecting stories. A petty crook and former lover of a lazy ingénue steals the box-office receipts from the Odeon of Herodus Atticus, on the day an important football game is also taking place. There is also the story of the half-mad mother of the ingénue who refuses to put shoes on because she believes that shoes lead people astray. An eccentric grave-digger produces a two-seater coffin for couple-victims of car accidents. The film also tells the story of one of the Odeon's cleaning women and of a watermelon that goes all around the city, pursued by a tired theater technician and his sister, who is a tour guide. The impresario conducts an inquiry after the theft, but the thief and his two associates, the ingénue and the technician, use what was stolen to set up a small theatre. Small everyday stories and comic incidents combine to create a portrait of modern-day Athens.
A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare- no matter how twisted or odd that way must be.
엄마와 함께 살고 있는 불라와 알렉산더 남매는 얼굴도 본 적이 없는 아빠를 찾아 무작정 북쪽으로 가는 기차에 승차한다. 기차에서 내려 정처없이 걸어서 여행을 계속하다가 트럭을 얻어타는 두 남매. 전날 밤 레스토랑의 종업원에게 추근거리다가 무안을 당한 트럭 운전사에 의해 어린 소녀 불라는 트럭 안에서 강간을 당한다. 결혼식 날 슬피 우는 신부와 거리에서 사람들의 무관심 속에 죽어가는 말, 공연장이 없어 뿔뿔이 흩어지는 유랑극단 등 슬프고 우수에 찬 그리스의 현실들이 두 남매의 여정을 스쳐간다. 유랑극단에서 일하고 있는 청년, 오레스테스를 향한 첫사랑의 벅찬 감정을 경험한 어린 소녀 불라는 강간의 상처와 첫사랑의 애틋함 사이에서 고통스러워한다. 그러다 오레스테스가 동성연애자임을 알게 된 불라는 절망하면서 그의 곁을 떠나간다. 그들을 뒤쫓아온 오레스테스의 가슴에 안겨 흐느껴 울면서 첫사랑과 가슴아픈 이별을 한 불라와 알렉산더는 아빠를 찾기 위한 여행을 계속하는데..
Girl
Feeling himself an outsider in contemporary Greece, a schoolteacher Spyros leaves his job and family to return to his hometown, where he intends to take up the occupation of his ancestors as a beekeeper. Over the course of his road trip he visits the sites and friends of his childhood, hoping to gather the pollen of his past, but instead meets and becomes obsessed with a young hitchhiker who represents the empty hedonism of the present.
