Year 2001. The intellectual Fokas Koresios, in the twilight of his life and retired from public life, decides to accept the invitation of director Aspa Pampleki to make a documentary about his life and work.
He begins the narration from his childhood, in the early 1930s: the oppression by his fascist military father, the strict framework imposed by the family protocol, his disobedient and turbulent teenage life, his enlistment in the Metaxist Youth and later in the ranks of EAM. After liberation, they find themselves, along with the love of his life, as scholars at the French Institute in Paris, where they mingle with the circle of existentialists and surrealists and he evolves into a mentor of philosophical reflection.
Consciously and under the weight of his unbearable guilt, he makes the director his confessor and reveals to her his deeply hidden secrets, even his crimes, until the conquest of the summit.
Thus, he poses to her the dilemma of whether she will serve historical truth or continue the conditional historical lies.