Synopsis:

The story unfolds in seven nights. Seven rainy winter nights in Athens when its inhabitants have withdrawn and the city sleeps. And in one's dreams anything can happen. Angry young misfits daily gamble with their lives in their attempts to prove which motorbike is the fastest. Victory parties break up in clouds of smoke, beer and boredom. Eleni, an intellectual in her forties, is looking for the man with whom she used to live. Instead she finds a silent youth with a fear of light. In the space of seven nights the young man passes all the stages of initiation into adulthood: victory, loneliness, love, fire. Seven nights in a row when he races across them on his motorbike, until the final encounter. As young men must in order to become men. In the end the film is a story about coming-of-age. In his first full-length feature Takis Antonopoulos settles his scores with his generation, today's forty-five year-olds who lived through May of `68, the dictatorship, the events at the Polytechnic. So, the intellectual's "impossible encounter" with the adolescent assumes the dimensions of an allegory as one generation attempts to communicate with the other. The dowry of the one is experience, accumulated time and retrospection. The other contributes with impetuousness, with the "roar and passion" of a big bike like those that roam over the secret places of the night. Images of Athens at night that are unknown, of unrivalled beauty and ferocity, a love story that rises like fire and over the fires, a low-keyed essay on everything that is most violent in the world today: the black leather jacket with the chain, or the icy-cold voice of an answering machine.