A musician goes to lead a festival on a scenic island, where he begins an unexpected romance and finds himself entwined in other people's problems.
In December 1948, an unofficial truce between the Democratic Army and the National Army enables the soldiers to share a human, touching moment before returning to the barbarous reality of the eternally divided Greeks.
Driven by deep concern for their fragile daughter, her parents subject her boyfriend to shockingly intense and brutal tests, pushing the boundaries of his love to its absolute limits.