Acting
May 1895. Our story begins when the family of George Pavlides engages their 12-year-old son, Miltos, with the 9-year-old daughter of Michalis Nikolaidis, Ifigenia. The attacks of fanatical Turks will force the two families to flee their homeland. The two youngsters will meet again in Istanbul 11 years later. Unaware of the family relationship that binds them, they instantly fall in love. The two lovers try to live their love, while being dragged by the whirlwind of historical events of the time.
The protagonist is "Mrs. Epitheoresis" herself, who returns to the stage to travel her great-grandson back in time, to her most important moments. On the stage parade the legendary protagonists, the inimitable lines, the great voices, the immortal songs, the glittering theaters of the golden age of the epitheoresis. And up close, current events, political and social changes, urbanization, the fate of Greece - always with humor and a satirical mood. "Kyria Epitheoresis" takes the viewer by the hand and guides them through the bars and historical theaters of Athens from the 1930s to the beginning of the dictatorship in 1967.
The story is a contemporary version of the ancient Greek myth of Electra. Electra is a young girl foreigner in her own land, as well as in other lands. The only place she could seek her identity is her own private world that she tries to create. From Africa to Europe, the film is a puzzle composed by pieces of her broken identity. Electra's very journey is finally her own land.
