The director Panos H. Koutras, gives us a well-made film, with a deconstruction of the human relationships that can only be understood from the bonding of sexual diversity. In the first scene Yiorgos (Yannis Kokiasmenos), says goodbye to his young gay lover in prison as he is released. He is a man in his fifties, thin and not smiling ever. Rent a hotel room in a seedy building and walk into the street, a neighbor appears asking for a light for her cigarette, she is Strella (Mina Orfanou). Strella, is a mix word between Stella (Star) and Trella (Mad). When Yorgos returns, late at night to his hotel, found out the sculptural Stella, prompting for fire again, but maybe something else, then she invites him for a drink to her room. Yorgos no stranger to what he sees, knows that she is a transsexual woman, immediately afterwards, they are kissing each other and of course more than that.

Later on, Yorgos want to sell his old house in a village near Athens, and went to the bar where friends celebrate their liberation. In the afternoon back home see Strella invites him to her apartment by a glass of whiskey, and he says he will give her a surprise, that he has assembled that is a set of lights, because it gives him the power. Strella lives with a gay guy and the young child, that the small brother of his androgyn friend. The thing goes well for Yorgos and Strella, she is working in a bar and there she is the impersonator of Maria Cllas, the opera singer, that actually was born in Athens.
In one of his trips to his town to see the sale of the house, one of his oldest friends, that by the way wants to buy the old house, ask Yogos if he has saw his son, Then after that without warning he mentioned to Yorgos that his sont run-away to Athens because he is a transvestite.
He had mentioned to Strella that was better no to talk of te past, but now he discovers the truth, indeed Strella is his son. The plot of the film may evolves into a Greek tragedy, Electra or Oedipus type, that is most important. Strella tells him , that she was all the time waiting for him that come out of prison. In fact Yorgo has a flash back. Where saw the girl who is now his son, blonde, and even when he leaves prison. Strella dressed blonde looks into the distance, with a red purse. Seduce the father was the best strategy he can think of to aboid to be alone without him, and not to leave her again. Then we know that the father was arrested for murdering an uncle who sexually molested the child that was then Strella. What about Strella and Yorgos? You have to see the movie.
The film is very well made, where love and understanding of others leads to tolerance. We do not have exactly to know how a computer works for to use it, why humans are different in so many things? Well do not know either, but respected and tolerated is the beginning of the things we would learn to the others, the others are part of some particular University of life, and by biass we are apart from them.

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