66th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
31 OCTOBER → 9 NOVEMBER 2025
National section: Competition

1997 110 35mm Colour
The ordinary story of two Dostoyevskian characters in the days of DNA, the Mafia, the Stock Exchange and lobotomy. Thomas, a Greek Raskolnikov who, after his crime, knows that any time now he is going to die, meets Sonia, the young Russian who came to Greece to work as a prostitute... Both believe that anyone seeking freedom outside his head dies a slave, that whatever is happening today we can only understand tomorrow, and that any person can be in two different places at the same time. He is 60; she is 27. He's about to die (or so he believes); she dreams of playing in a big orchestra. They live their backstreet adventure with no time to spare. He pays his debts; she gets into debt... Mud and snow don't stay outside the door forever...