Three friends; one life-changing summer.
Vana is an eighteen-year-old mathematical prodigy whose voice a fan describes as “85% Sarah Vaughan, 10% Billie Holiday, and 5% Aretha Franklin” – with an attitude to match. Desperate to leave her chaotic family and become the independent woman of her imagination, she lands a summer job on an ageing Greek cruise ship as a member of the house band.
She convinces her cousin Stepan and his best friend Marko to come along for the ride. Marko, having failed his university entrance exams, is on the trail of bouzouki god Markos Vamvakaris in hopes of claiming his own artistic identity. Meanwhile Stepan – agronomist, accordionist, occasional mystic – has spent the last ten years secretly in love with his only friend.
Finding themselves stranded in the surreal microcosm of a cruise ship, the three friends stumble across a series of dark and dissolving frontiers: between love and friendship, memory and forgetfulness, sacrifice and redemption. On this voyage to the heart of an ancient world, can the bonds of a friendship forged in childhood survive the tests of tragedy and self-discovery?