1992

The film follows a group of Greek civilian prisoners of war who are forced to march from the Aegean coast of Turkey into the hinterlands, where they were placed in labour camps. The story begins with the siege of Smyrna. A young schoolteacher is giving one last lesson to 17-year-old Ilias. Soon, both Antigone and Ilias will be added to the unending rows of nameless, numbered people, forced to walk through the deserts and over the mountains of Anatolia, from where very few will come out alive. Antigone will be killed by a Turk, and only the young Ilias will survive to the end of the march.