[/spiti/ (noun): Greek for house, ] Alex is dealing with two losses; her father's sudden death, and the impending sale of her family house, that he had built as an architect. Trying to cope with this new reality, she starts forming a curious relationship with the house itself, and she unexpectedly falls in love with a girl. A personal guide on love and loss, set in the heat of the Greek summer, and narrated in parallel by the real people who lived in the house.
A mother loses her daughter to femicide. Instead of reacting with rage against the world, she mourns in her own different way: by going out, speaking publicly, and fighting to trade love for patriarchy for the sake of our society. By interweaving every-day moments with the story of our protagonist, the film tries to describe the banality of this evil. Mothers of Daughters pushes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking by poetically and sensitively trying to find imagery for this unbelievable story, that could happen to any of us.
A recently divorced middle-aged man receives a smartphone from his daughter and reconnects with the first love of his life who asks him to meet.
Six chapters describe the lives and perils of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community which was almost entirely exterminated by the Nazis in 1943. Past and present become an echo chamber in which the viewer experiences, aghast, the madness of humanity.