Greece 2020. The far-right government of Theofylaktos Nikolaidis - also known as Lakis - thinks that it will have an easy task at taking power. A global pandemic, however, turns it upside down, revealing the institutional decay of a country whose fate is linked to its Sisyphean task of trying to be part of European integration and democratization. What will Perseas Ananiadis, the Minister of Development - who is longing for the period of the seven years of dictatorship - do when his name is involved in a scandal of overpricing surgical masks?...read more
Greece 2020. The far-right government of Theofylaktos Nikolaidis - also known as Lakis - thinks that it will have an easy task at taking power. A global pandemic, however, turns it upside down, revealing the institutional decay of a country whose fate is linked to its Sisyphean task of trying to be part of European integration and democratization. What will Perseas Ananiadis, the Minister of Development - who is longing for the period of the seven years of dictatorship - do when his name is involved in a scandal of overpricing surgical masks? And how suitable is a former basketball player as the Minister of Health, who in an official basketball match sets the abysmal record for missing twelve "free throws" in a row.
All these questions are attempted at being answered by a freelance journalist who fights, against all odds, to maintain his integrity and emerge unscathed from the crisis, in a situation comedy where the boundaries between the hilarious and the tragic often become blurred.
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