After many years of living in Africa, a family returns to Greece and tries to make a fresh start and stand on their own feet again. The grandmother prepares the evening meal, and her cooking becomes the reason for the whole family to gather. During the appetizer, all the issues troubling them come to the surface. In the first course, secrets are revealed and unbelievable stories unfold. But when the dessert arrives-ekmek ice cream-nothing seems quite so serious anymore.

Thanasis, a cotton candy vendor from Athens, has been caring for little Melissa since she was a baby when her mother, an immigrant prostitute, thought it best to leave the girl behind while seeking fortune in America. Her unexpected appearance five years later has traumatic consequences when she takes her child away from Thanasis and leaves. Thanasis decides to travel to America in the hope of seeing her again.

A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.

It is a story of a normal, everyday Greek family that each member turns out to be wacko or gets wacko by the other members. The father is the stoic figure that accepts everything. The mother has a middle age crisis and takes advantage of her husbands inability. The older brother is a doctor of psychology and has everything under control (or believe so) and the younger brother does nothing with his life acclaiming that he is a filmmaker.