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Antonis (Veggos) is a man that loves very much his wife, but he better loves money. He doesn't hesitate in selling their new house if somebody gives him more than he has spent. 'If somebody gives you money you have to take them' he keeps saying. So, they stay in an old house, as he keeps building houses to stay in and selling them instead of moving into. He sells her car when somebody gives him a better price. He even pretends the dead man in order to have a 200$ monthly check from his wife's uncle (Kwstantaras), who unfortunately comes back from USA in order to have his niece remarried. One of the best acting moments of Veggos. Sakellarios knows exactly what we need and gives us 93 minutes of unstopping laughing.

With 'no budget story' Haralampidis tries not just to make a low cost story (The whole budget was just 15000$). He succeeds in two things. First to give a lesson to all these who think that cinema is just an industry, a way to make money, so, if somebody spends a lot of money in making a movie, he'll be a success. These people have forgotten the relation between art and cinema. The other target of Haralampidis was to pay a tribute to all the great directors that he is fond of, like Scorceze, Felini, or Bunuel. In the film, he actually makes us feel the desperation and the hope of a young director that cares only for the artistic side of cinema, and can not find any support or somebody at least to understand him. For me is an example of how movies should be made. A study on the cinema of the great directors and not on the cinema that belongs to Hollywood (and all the others that would like to be Hollywood), where only money talks. A film that you can watch it a lot of times and every time it will give you something new, real artistic movie. Congratulations to Haralampidi.