A BREATH IN THE AEGEAN

On the small Cycladic island of Anafi lives 77-year-old Manolis Pelekis, a bagpipe player, a farmer, a beekeeper, and a stone builder. He and his son Yannis are the last builders of stone, the last ones of a great generation of Anafiot builders. Manolis teaches his grandson, 9-year-old Manolis, who, following in his grandfather’s steps, learns from him and plays the tsampouna (bagpipe) with him. An Athenian primary school teacher, Nota Kraounakis, requested and was sent to teach at Anafi’s elementary school for a year. Little Manolis is her pupil. The lives of these two teachers and their pupil are documented in the film on this tiny Greek island where plants sprout out of the asphalt road.