Wednesday 19 March at 21:00

In the winter of 1972, 28years-old Irene is sent to prison for resistance activities. For her nine years-old daughter Olga, her imprisonment makes her feel as though she has been abandoned. For her superficial ex-husband Manolis, it is the moment when for the first time he shoulders the responsibilities of fatherhood. Irene’s childhood friend, Vassia, unwittingly plays a catalytic role in the changing balances. In prison, Irene herself discovers another side of life and of herself. When she is released in August 1973, she finds that nothing is the way she left it. In her feature debut, Elizabeth Chronopoulou gives flesh and bones to her own memories of her artistic family’s turbulent life in Athens during the dictatorship, in a film of liberating power that interweaves with logical argument and occasional humor the specific (personal) with the general (socio-political).

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