In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

1998 film directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos

作者以饱满真挚的感情、平实顺畅的文字叙述了他所认识的特定时期的各种人物，他亲身经历的社会政治事件，他对那个动荡不安的时代的感受，记录了当时欧洲从一战前夜到二战欧洲危局的社会现实，批露了世界文化名人鲜为人知的生活轶事，同时穿插了作者各种细腻的心迹。

作者以饱满真挚的感情、平实顺畅的文宇叙述了他所认识的特定时期的各种人物，他亲身经历的社会政治事件，他对那个动荡不安的时代的感受，记录了当时欧洲从一战前夜到二战欧洲危局的社会现实，批露了世界文化名人鲜为人知的生活轶事，同时穿插了作者各种细腻的心迹。...