A woman falls in love with her husband's student while fighting a dictatorship—what could go wrong?
In an inn in Trieste, Kyveli, wife of a political prisoner of the junta, falls in love with an old student of her husband, who has been distinguished for his activities against the dictatorship. But he will be forced to run away, along with his lover, as they are hunted by the police. Kyveli will go to Strasbourg to present evidence to the Council of Europe, which proves human rights violations in Greece, but the session is postponed and she now lives in a web of fantasies and unfulfilled expectations.
Acting
Eva Kotamanidou's devastating stillness
Cinematography
Smoky Trieste interiors, lonely Strasbourg streets
Director
Hristoforos Hristofis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Greece's post-junta reckoning, the film reflects real collective trauma of the Metapolitefsi era.
Director Hristofis was a former resistance fighter himself; the Strasbourg scenes were shot guerrilla-style without permits.
GR
