Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.
When his mother dies by suicide, Dinos returns to the village where he grew up. Confronted with the Orthodox tradition that denies her burial, he — like a modern Antigone — defies social conventions by choosing a personal ritual of farewell.
