Young Dimitris, on the verge of manhood yet very much a child, has romanticized his imprisoned father to mythic proportions. When he gets released after ten years, Dimitris cannot wait to finally know him and make up for lost time. But when his father reveals his true nature, Dimitris must face a great dilemma: will his need of belonging prevail over his sense of justice?
Acting
Dimitris Kitsos captures trembling boy-man desperation perfectly
Direction
Americanou frames cramped spaces as psychological prisons
Director
Yianna Americanou
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Greek 'weird wave' cinema exploring economic crisis-era masculinity, though Americanou grounds her debut in brutal social realism rather than Lanthimos-style absurdism.
The father's decade-long sentence mirrors Greece's own generational wounds—Dimitris was essentially raised by a country in crisis, making his desperate clinging to any male authority figure politically loaded.
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