A story of five teenagers (1 gay, 1 closeted bisexual) who are setting up an armed gang: a drug fuelled sexually charged mosaic of love, lost relationships, betrayal and nihilism, that takes place in a declining city, where everything is collapsing within the economic and social crisis. Constantine Yiannaris, one of the greatest directors of contemporary Greek cinema, returns with another explosive film about Athens today, deservedly winning the Audience Award at the Film Festival of Thessaloniki. Five teenagers are driven to the police interrogation room and tell the same story: how they reached the crime. But it is the same story? As we watch the different (and sometimes contradictory) versions of events we see unfolding before us, full of suspense, mosaic teenage love, impulse and thirst for freedom. As members of a gang, the young heroes get a first taste of life as adults and are intoxicated by what he has to offer them, without considering the destruction sow around them. And beyond the limits, entrained by the vortex of developments.

In a village in the Greek countryside, 55-year-old patriarch Takis (Akyllas Karazisis) and his long-suffering wife Eleni (Maria Kallimani) have been fighting with their loud-mouth neighbour, who is laying claim to part of the family’s land. As Takis prepares for the opening of his new butcher shop, decades of accumulated tensions between the two foes bubble to the surface. On one explosive night, the neighbour is killed by Takis’s only son Pavlos (Pavlos Iordanopoulos), a fumbling and hotheaded overgrown child. The only witness to this carnal crime is Christos (Kostas Nikouli), a handsome and hardworking young man from Albania, whom Takis has employed — and in many ways raised — since adolescence. The murderer and the eyewitness initially bury the evidence of the brutal act, but as rumours swirl and a killer must be named, the truth begins to take many forms. Soon, Takis must face the reality of choosing the fate of both young men.

2014 film directed by Panos H. Koutras