The story of a country is the story of a woman, or is it the other way around? No man is an island, and if one connects the points that define each of our destinies separately, they will form a line parallel to the one that runs through the backbone of the modern history of the borders that surround us.

Alkmini is born, falls in love, hurts, gives birth, mourns, dreams, ages, and with her, a country searches for identity, bleeds, heals, envisions, hopes.

Through the story of Alkmini, a woman born in the east of the past century, Theodosios Michos unfolds the history of modern Greece, from the Occupation to the present day. The events that surround Alkmini's life vividly underline the framework of modern Greek reality: resistance, civil war, reconstruction, the plaster of the colonels, the Change, the disappointment of promises...

Alkmini and the others are among the rare works that with surgical precision in describing people and situations, create a stunning mosaic of Greece - then and now.