Dimitris, a shy and not ambitious 30-year-old bourgeois, is struggling against his past, the nightmare of German occupation and his unstable reality, just to discover his real self and the meaning of his whole existence.

After eight drab years of work in a small-scale factory, the thirty-something petty-bourgeois, Dimitris, finds himself without a job, and, of course, penniless. Rudderless, apathetic, and utterly unmotivated, Dimitris meanders through the faceless, rain-soaked Athenian streets like a stranger in his own land, bombarded by vivid bitter memories of a dangerous, poverty-stricken childhood during the Nazi Occupation of Greece. As a result, unable to cope with the bleak reality, but still refusing to compromise with the complex demands of the status quo, Dimitris attempts to turn over a new leaf when he has a chance encounter with the idealist young schoolteacher, Maria. Will this new relationship mark the beginning of self-awareness and the end of an ugly and bankrupt old world?—Nick Riganas