A young furrier leaves Castoria in 1971 to emigrate to France to live with a relative. He finds a photograph, leading to a confrontation with his relative.

Ilias Apostolou, a young furrier who has had a hard time under the dictatorship, leaves Castoria in 1971 to emigrate to France, where he hopes to join a distant relative of his, Gerassimos Tzivas, who has been living there since 1950. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a person that he finds on the pavement. He asks Gerassimos to help him in finding work in Paris. A misunderstanding around the photograph, however, sets off a series of dramatic events.—Artemis-9

September 1971, Kastoria, Greece. Armed with shy courage and the picture of a photogenic female singer, Ilias, the son of a communist living in Georgios Papadopoulos' Greece, summons up the strength to leave forever behind his birthplace and ailing mother. Having nothing to lose, Ilias emigrates to France to create a better future for himself, determined to become a furrier and learn the tricks of the trade from his misanthropic, self-exiled distant relative, Yerassimos. But there, a seemingly innocuous fabrication will drag both men into a cruel, harsh world of false promises and impatient expectations, culminating in a climactic, tragic finale.—Nick Riganas