Intrigue

Something magical is happening on a utopian uncharted island somewhere in the Aegean Sea. Two unsuspecting visitors arrive at the idyllic Armenaki and come face-to-face with the bizarre lifestyle of its larger-than-life inhabitants.

In this unconventional comedy, a French member of the European Parliament and his assistant, a Greek economist, end up in Armenaki, an islet lost somewhere in the Aegean Sea. They are there in an official political mission and obstinate to finish the work as soon as possible. However, the place and its residents are said to be miraculous and able to change people's lives. A spiral of unforeseen events we'll not let them go and force both to reconsider their way of thinking and living. They meet with a visionary teacher and a rugged widow and let themselves get carried away by the vortex of love. They finally decide to live in freedom.

Something magical is happening in a small uncharted island, somewhere in the Aegean Sea. Two unsuspected foreigners, a French member of the European Parliament and a young Greek economist, arrive in idyllic Armenaki with a fishing boat and become acquainted with the bizarre life style and subversive moral values of its people. Money is out-dated and - no banks, no streets, no cars, no rooms to let. They will meet the erratic teacher and the lavish widow of the island and let themselves get carried away by the vortex of love and this charming place that has the power to change people's lives.

Who would have thought that in the utopian Armenaki Island, a tiny dot in the heart of the Aegean Sea, the obsessive anxieties of the modern world are a thing of the past? Two unsuspecting visitors, Felix, a French member of the European Parliament, and Avra, his Greek economist assistant, arrive by boat in the idyllic place to explore investment opportunities, only to come face-to-face with the bizarre lifestyle of its larger-than-life inhabitants. There, as they experience unprecedented situations, Felix and Avra will have no other choice but to surrender to the onslaught of cathartic emotions and embrace change. Will they be able to rid themselves of their urban passions and experience the ultimate form of freedom?—Nick Riganas