ILLUSION 是一部关于人、人的愿望、恐惧、希望和渴望的电影。在日常工作的表象背后，我们可以一窥究竟。影片在现实与虚幻之间循环往复，视觉效果令人惊叹，是一部充满惊心动魄的情感旋转木马。八个性格迥异的人在一家酒吧相遇。一夜之间，他们摆脱了瘫痪的日常生活，踏上了通往思想世界的旅程。被压抑的愿望、性幻想和恐惧浮出水面，被遗忘的经历被揭示。夜幕降临。

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.

An engagement party is interrupted by the arrival of the Russian girl, hired to help an old woman. Liubi is the girl who is going to keep company to and help the sick mother of out protagonist. Dimitris, the son of the family and Liubi eventually fall in love. Their love will be tested by the social racism that surounds the origins of the girl.