 A search for a
missing person leads the hero of the film on a journey throughout the north of Greece. He
gives up the safety of a job, a family, and a home to enter into a new unknown world,
built up of uncertainty: "Hades" to which the name refers. On one hand, he sees
himself on a solitary journey of one man in the direction of an "inferno of
conscience", while he recollects the principal facts of his life. On the other hand,
"Hades" is also real space, where social changes have wrought swift radical
change to the territory bordering on the Baltic countries.This is the story of Evanthia who, as a new Alcestis, the heroine in the
Euripides tragedy, descends into hell in place of her husband Admoetus. The sacrifice of
Evanthia serves as example to Manos, hero of the film, who exceeds his own limits in quest
of catharsis and expiation. |
