Synopsis:

Two twin boys grow up in a middle-class environment in the Athens of the late fifties. Surrounded by women (widowed mother, older sister, aunts, maid-servant) they feel the first pangs of love as they enter puberty and as the city around them changes at an ever increasing pace so as to catch up with "progress". In adapting Yannis Xanthoulis' best-seller for the screen Karypidis made a conscious choice to respect the feel of the period. His relationship with his subject is purely sensory: the viewer can almost smell the summer evening in the garden of an Athens home in the fifties, almost tastes the "dead liqueur", almost touches the various objects of the period with which the camera flirts, not out of some naturalistic hysteria but because of the fact that the objects have survived the people. Α low-keyed, tender film that dares launch itself into the dream and is not afraid to feel nostalgic for things that are no more.