A group of men that their friendship starts from the army, meet after years in the funeral of a friend. This bad time reunites them, as for many years the family life and obligations, had absorbed a strong friendship.
It is the summer of 1974. After the Turkish invasion in Cyprus the greek dictatorship mobilises the army. A small squad in northern Greece is ordered among others to go to Cyprus, but when the dictatorship falls, the soldiers are left in the island of Samothrace awaiting orders. As days pass things are getting out of control
A glimpse of the Greek Civil War, which followed soon after the end of WW2, as it was experienced in the remote and rather peculiar island of Ikaria. After the defeat of the Democratic Army of Greece on Samos island, several men attempt to escape certain death at the hands of the Greek government. The loose film plot does incorporate many local stories and legends from that dark period, as well as older tales.
Rigas Axelos is known for Ithikon akmaiotaton (2005), Numbered (1998) and Lysistrata (1972).
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