Daphne Manousou

The Long Island is the place of our self-exile. The Nightmare is our Father. Speaking and Hearing is the Nightmare’s gift to all of us. Silence is our gift to him. The Family protects us from Infection and Taxidermists. The soil will be the point of return. Tomorrow is today. Today is the 13th day of the Blue Year 37.

Giannis and Paris celebrate the Day of the Dead, also their anniversary, at their Latin American café-teatral. A crossroad where beloved people meet, lonely next door people, strange travellers. Their stories are intertwined, the past meets the present, music and dancing transform reality. As the night falls and the celebration reaches its ecstatic peak, the café becomes a small Arc, travelling beyond space and time, filled with memories, wishes, and revelations. 50 actors, musicians and dancers take part in the film.

Niki is a resistance fighter living in a nightmarish dictatorship in Athens, 1972, and Lefteris is her son, who will be forced sooner or later to cut the thread that binds them together.