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A Greek islander recounts his tumultuous journey from refugee to fighter and prisoner in North Africa during WWII.
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In this hybrid first-person account, a Greek islander opens up to his filmmaker granddaughter about his violent coming-of-age as refugee, fighter and political prisoner in North Africa during the Second World War. Young Nikolaos Plakas fled starvation on the Greek island of Ikaria. A first-person narrative, in the local dialect of Ikaria, interrupted by fragments of war footage and home movie imagery.
