Penny Fylaktaki

1952, Cryopigi, Xanthi. Marika vows never to leave her sisters, Vasiliki, Frosso and Despinio. But in pursuit of a better life, the girls end up as maids in different homes. Will they manage to survive and merge again?

The series chronicles the transformation of the young Maria Callas from an ugly duckling to the greatest diva of all time, during the Occupation in Athens. We follow Maria through her relationship with the key figures in her young life: her mother, her Spanish teacher, her baritone lover, her pianist sister, the German conductor. However, each of them, impressed by her talent, has other plans for Maria.

On a Cycladic island, a young heiress fights to save her late father's hotel from a ruthless tycoon, while an alluring investor complicates her struggle between loyalty to the past and the pursuit of her own future.

The events of this film, spanning from the very first moments after the Occupation until the first years of the 1980s. In those years, which are crucial for Greek History, the adventurous path of a poor family is illustrated, that’s slowly going to end up filthy rich. The members of the aforesaid family found out the hard way, that money cannot buy happiness.