A deep, unfulfilled love within an erotic triangle. A story of trust and betrayal. A story of present-day Athens, of onlookers, of hesitation. Where holding back is normal, no matter how self-destructive.

Sotiris is a police investigator in Athens who lives by a strict moral code. An honest man, he carries himself as though held down by the weight of the world. Dora is a cleaning lady, struggling to get by any way she can. Dealt a rough hand in life, she has developed a rich layer of cynicism and mistrust that informs her every action. When a man Sotiris believes is innocent is arrested for a brutal crime, his attempt to uncover the truth results in a grave mistake. Finding himself on the other side of the law for the first time, he places his fate in Dora, the only witness to his malfeasance and the only person who can help him, for better or for worse.

第55届柏林国际电影节参展影片。本片根据真人真事改编。
一辆巴士在希腊北部被劫持，车上乘客的生命安全已遭到威胁，本片《人质》通过一位劫持巴士的阿尔巴尼亚年轻人与7名乘客之间的关系，探讨了敏感的希腊与阿尔巴尼亚两国的关系，劫匪向警察提出100万欧元的赎金以及安全通道，这场劫持事件已经不是单纯劫持巴士那么简单了。
只是就绑匪的犯罪起因、动机、思想活动，以及遭绑架人质的背景与心理作了艺术性的再现虚构和更为深入的刻画。因此注明“纯属虚构”。
作为一部“政治电影”，本片并没有像好莱坞处理同类型题材电影一样，追求扣人心弦的情节节奏，打造一位无所不能的超级英雄，来拯救人质。
相反，影片赋予了绑匪更多的理解与同情。他曾是一位阿尔巴尼亚好青年，因为家境贫寒，被迫与相爱的未婚妻解除婚约。为了改变命运，他来到希腊打工，却屡受歧视，甚至遭警察毒打，撕毁了身份证明。走投无路的他被迫劫持公共汽车，只是希望拿到应有的报酬顺利回家。他将汽车上所有的老人都放了，只留下七名年轻的希腊人作为人质。随着相互的沟通与了解，人质们对他都抱有善意与同情，真心地助他拿到赎金返回家乡。然而最终，他在与警方找来的母亲对话时，被狙击手一枪击毙。
虽说是罪有应得，也令我心生同情。

Antonis arrives at a hotel resort by the sea. It is wintertime, the hotel is closed and Antonis drifts around alone. He has a lot of time to kill. Until television announces the disappearance of the famous TV host Antonis Paraskevas…