- As the lights flicker on a warm August night amid vacant Athens' stillness, a modern bohemian flirts with a woman he has just met. The perfect strangers stroll around the city's quiet night streets, changed by the unforgettable journey.
- Content with his indolent lifestyle, Nikos, an unambitious bohemian and aspiring author, patiently waits for a miracle: to love and be loved. At the same time, self-confident fashion stylist Sophia thirsts to fulfil her aspirations. However, she, too, leads an ordinary life. But opposites attract. And as the lights flicker on a warm August night amid vacant Athens' stillness, Nikos crosses paths with destiny. Before long, the romantic knight in not-so-shining armour summons the courage to approach Sophia, the alluring woman he has just met at a phone booth. Over the course of the remaining evening, Nikos will try to blur the line between chatting and flirting, hoping to earn Sophia's trust. After all, the perfect strangers' flowing August rhapsody underlines the necessity of a radical change in their uneventful lives. But as Sophia and Nikos stroll around the city's quiet night streets, talking and laughing, questions emerge. Who knows what first light has in store for the enchanted urban sentimentalists?—Nick Riganas
- On an August night, in an almost deserted Athens... A young man in his early thirties, (Haralambidis) without a past or a future waiting for something to happen in the heart of a big city, is hanging out in a coffee shop with his friends as they discuss their thoughts, their daydreams, and their romantic dilemmas. A beautiful girl at a telephone booth has a terrible argument with her boyfriend over the phone. An old friend, on the verge of an emotional breakdown, longs for his high school sweetheart and screams her name from his balcony. Two incorrigible middle-aged bachelors masterfully set up the "trap of the century" that will finally get them their girl. The owner of a coffee shop recites poetry. A couple's 11-year-old relationship is ludicrously challenged by the presence of a body-builder. An American challenges Mohammed Ali to a boxing match, as a tribute to the boxer whom he considers to be the ultimate dancer. Two mobsters trained in pressure tactics "annul" themselves through the comedy of an absurd defeat... Actor Renos Haralambidis does double duty as both director and leading man in this loose-limbed comedy.When he spies the beautiful woman at the telephone booth (Anna Maria Papaharalambous) , it looks like he's on his way to another fractured romance, as he follows her, trying to get her attention over the course of the evening, while his friends carry on without him. The story's Ftina Tsigara's supporting cast includes Anna Maria Papaharalambous, Michalis Iatropoulos, and Costas Tsakonas.
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