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The relationship between a French journalist and his girlfriend is tested during the ORTF strike of television workers in this half documentary half fiction feature.

Eight months after meeting Ulysses in Rio, Pascale decided to bring him to Paris. The plane ticket Ulysses receives takes him to Europe. When he arrived at Roissy airport, he was welcomed with open arms by Pascale, who was determined to win him back. Ulysses, if he is indeed seduced by Pascale's attitude, is nevertheless less inflamed than she is.

A man is shot down in a provincial airport. Despite his wounds he manages to drag himself to his plane bound for Italy, unaware that the killers are already waiting for him at his destination. During the flight he reminisces about the events that led him there. His name is Matou and he was a Formula 1 champion before being banned from racing circuits for causing a fatal accident. Matou ran away in the company of Lena, his employer's girlfriend. But while they were in the open country they got shot at by mysterious pursuers, which was the beginning of a wild manhunt.

One afternoon in the Saint-Germain-des-Près neighbourhood in Paris, Philippe, 18, falls for Frédéric, a teenage hustler.

A young woman is driving an old black car on a deserted freeway. Soon, a cold night has fallen and the car runs out of gas. The young woman waits all alone under the full moon for an improbable help.

The Greek word for loss of memory is used in this episode to explore how modern politicians deliberately speak only to the present and passing moment, and do not foster a sense of history.

This episode is classic Chris Marker, tying together an abandoned Athenian power plant turned cultural center, ancient Greek statuary, a department store in Japan, young men destroyed by armored warfare during WWI, and a comparison between Plato's parable of the cave and contemporary cinema.

The City of Dreams examines what was meant by Democracy in ancient Greek cities such as Athens, what were it's limitations, and how it relates to what we mean by the word today. Some, such as Elia Kazan, do not think it amounted to much.

Essay filmmakers like Marker and Godard love word play.Here as images show how Greek derived words permeate our media, our street signs, even our graffiti, we delve in a semiotic kind of way into the basis of speech itself.

Mathematics, in its original sense meaning Learning, is another word we got from Greece.Here a smaller group of talking heads focus on how ancient concepts of numbering and measuring underlie our ability to think.

The complicated subject of sexuality and gender in Greece includes homoeroticism, how large a social role women did play , how teaching about the danger of desire and the limits of the body compare with more repressive Christianity.

As music (again a Greek word) stemmed from imitating nature's sounds and in Byzantine/ Orthodox times became an expression of suffering and misery, Marker challenges with new experimental examples from the UPIC studio and Iannis Xenakis.

What were the stories Greece shared that were a kind of religion, how do the stories relate to ones in Japan,and was violence involved or did polytheism prevent the more extensive violence accompanying, several speakers argue, monotheism?

Spinning off from the stories of the Odyssey and of updated migration epics such as that of Elia Kazan 's family, Nostalgia questions to what extent we can actually put ourselves back in ancient times we do not fully understand.

Instead of its commonly assumed use to promote Democracy, thinkers show how the Nazis distorted the legacy of ancient Greece, such as the Olympics, for their own undemocratic purposes.

The banquets we have seen over 13 parts come to an end, as our talking heads make their last comments on the lasting gifts of a culture without a sacred book, and where the owl looms even larger as a symbol of wisdom.

The 1st of 13 episodes sets a tone for back and forth brainstorming by savvy talking heads, some pictured gathering in cities round the world for old fashioned drinking: how much of what we know about the Greeks is not exactly true?

As Marker compares staging of Greek plays with their Japanese counterparts,questions arise as to the meaning of such theater in a specifically democratic space, and warnings against excess and hubris.