RECONSTRUCTION

After years of working in Germany as an immigrant, a man returns to his village of Tymfea, in Epirus: a handful of stone houses in a desolate, rugged part of Greece, depopulated by many years of immigration and home to the few remaining inhabitants. A few days later, his wife, with the help of her lover, kills him, buries him in the garden, and tells everyone that he has gone back to Germany. The man’s sudden departure makes the villagers suspicious and soon the police arrive. That is the crux of the story that will develop through different investigations: the one conducted by the bureaucracy (the examining magistrate) which wants to find a perpetrator and close the case; and the one conducted by a group of journalists, which by recording the testimonials of the villagers, highlights the sociological framework that generated these events, as well as the dramatic social reality of the village which remains an open wound.