Summer 1949: end of the civil war in Greece. The last band of guerrillas of the Democratic Army is forced to abandon Mount Taygetus and to head for the sea. Everything behind them has collapsed and they can count on help from no one. In this long, desperate and aimless march, the group will end up by being annihilated by the National Army and the armed villagers.
In 1926, Ada and Ignacy go to Cairo and open a perfume shop.
A college student seeks to set things traight with his mother, that abandonned him as a child as she fled with his uncle to America.
