A drama about Greek immigrants in Stockholm in the 1960s.

Thessaloniki Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1983 Won Greek Competition Award Best Cinematography
Aris Stavrou
Best Editing
Andreas Andreadakis
Tied with Yannis Tsitsopoulos for Revanche (1983).
Best Set Decoration
Marie-Louise Bartholomew
Best Sound
Marinos Athanassopoulos

During the dictatorship, a young man goes to Paris, where he seeks help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relative who works as a furrier. The young man carries with him the photograph of a singer whom he presents as his sister, thus causing a series of misunderstandings which trap him in a vicious circle of lies and fantasies. An allegory in the form of a modern-day tragedy of the “misunderstandings” and deceits of modern Greek History, as seen through the eyes of a Greek of the Diaspora.

Madeleine, rendered mute after being sexually assaulted as a youth, accepts a lift from a wealthy and sadistic pimp who soon enslaves her into his prostitution racket. Despite her limited means, Madeleine embarks on a bloody road to revenge against her captors.