A biopic about the rise and fall of one of Greece's most esteemed poets, Napoleon Lapathiotis.
At the turn of the twentieth century a young merchant is abducted by a group of brigands who are sheltered in a remote mountainous area of Greece aiming to extract ransom from his wealthy family. The young man develops a kind of sympathy to the arch-brigand and realizes that the underground life and moral code of his kidnappers actually represent a more genuine expression of “New Hellenism” than his bourgeois well-being.
Alekos is a young writer, who faces a creative block, can not find any meaning and redemption in his reality, wasting himself among adventurous romances and dangerous friendships.
