Aris Retsos

Crete 1897. Greek rebels gained their freedom by fighting in the mountains. An allied fleet of French, English, Italian and Russian warships anchored in the port of Chania in protecting Greek and Turkish inhabitants. Rosa Bonaparte, accompanied by twelve girls off at a deserted beach with all the equipment of a Marseille brothel. Installed in a wing of a huge, ruined former Town Hall, where the officers of the allied fleet meet and entertain in the evenings surrounded by undercover agents, military connectors, and speculators : an East-West mosaic of languages, costumes and intrigue ...

During his summer vacation in Mytilene, a young and lonely small-time clerk, Kostas, becomes bewitched by a femme fatale, Anna Parisi, a thirty-five-year-old German woman married to a wealthy local businessman.

En Grèce, sous la dictature des colonels, le jeune Ilyas, fourreur de son métier, ne trouve pas d'emploi à cause d'une filiation communiste. Il se réfugie en France où il est accueilli par un cousin quadragénaire, Gerassimos, établi comme fourreur à Paris. Ilyas détient un secret concernant son cousin : l'argent que ce dernier envoie régulièrement en Grèce via un intermédiaire à l'intention de ses parents est une escroquerie, car ceux-ci sont décédés depuis longtemps. En outre, l'hébergement et le travail procurés par son cousin ne lui suffisant pas, Ilyas use d'un stratagème pour obtenir toujours plus de confort : il lui fait croire que la jolie fille sur la photo qu'il cache dans son portefeuille est sa sœur alors que c'est une vedette de la chanson.

It is on Ascension Day that Zoe, a brilliant computer analyst, visits the National Park in the center of Athens with her daughter, Katerina. That afternoon in the park, Zoe experiences an overwhelming array of instinctive compulsions and transforms into an ancient Maenad in ecstatic frenzy, even capable of murder. Instincts and animals get loose and panic takes over.

The story of a young man who every day watches the inhabitants of the apartment across the street. They have a very beautiful daughter, but after a few days he finds himself in love with the mother...