A rebel saves 70 villagers from execution during the German occupation. When he falls into a ravine to escape his pursuers, the villagers believe him to be dead and erect a statue in his memory. He returns three decades later, alive and well.

1957, Drapetsona, a working-class suburb of Piraeus. Katy feels stifled by her futile, enervating and almost ridiculous day-to-day life. An old dress becomes the pretext for the young girl to attempt what her mother dared not: to claim the right to living and not merely existing, or at least a simple stroll in the port.

Father and son are sitting on a bench. Suddenly a sparrow lands across them.