January 2001. Demosthenes Doxaras, an established author, is in Prague, invited by the National Theatre for the premiere of his play. At the end of the triumphant evening, he returns to the hotel, where later, in the frozen night, his past begins to unfold like a film: his childhood years in the village, the horrors of war, the post-war capital, his conventional marriage but also passionate love affairs, his refuge in Marseille during the dictatorship. A life like fiction, where recognition and solitude are two sides of the same coin, his passion for writing. A life dedicated to the same vision.

A social drama and at the same time a cosmopolitan novel, where myth intertwines with history, the imaginary converses with the real, from the Mani of the 1940s to modern Athens.