Based on the work by the same name by Manos Hadjidakis, the film tries to turn the works of great Greek poets into images. At the same time, it attempts to describe how a piece of music is created.
Alexandros (Bruno Ganz) is a seriously ill writer who is working on Dionysios Solomos’ unfinished work entitled “The Free Besieged”. He is searching for a linguistic and existential identity. He...