Ioanna Skylogianni

After surviving a deadly attack, a guard on the Soviet-Chinese border decides to become a monk but must continually prove along the way that he's capable of becoming the enlightened man he set out to be.

The film is a portrait of an ordinary family, as each of its members tries to manage their own little secrets.

An old-school painter who consciously resists anything modern unexpectedly creates a groundbreaking work of art.