After eight drab years of work in a small-scale factory, the thirty-something petty-bourgeois, Dimitris, finds himself without a job, and, of course, penniless. Rudderless, apathetic, and utterly unmotivated, Dimitris meanders through the faceless, rain-soaked Athenian streets like a stranger in his own land, bombarded by vivid bitter memories of a dangerous, poverty-stricken childhood during the Nazi Occupation of Greece. As a result, unable to cope with the bleak reality, but still refusing to compromise with the complex demands of the status quo, Dimitris attempts to turn over a new leaf when he has a chance encounter with the idealist young schoolteacher, Maria. Will this new relationship mark the beginning of self-awareness and the end of an ugly and bankrupt old world?