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.

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。

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.