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This is a series of intersecting stories. A petty crook and former lover of a lazy ingénue steals the box-office receipts from the Odeon of Herodus Atticus, on the day an important football game is also taking place. There is also the story of the half-mad mother of the ingénue who refuses to put shoes on because she believes that shoes lead people astray. An eccentric grave-digger produces a two-seater coffin for couple-victims of car accidents. The film also tells the story of one of the Odeon's cleaning women and of a watermelon that goes all around the city, pursued by a tired theater technician and his sister, who is a tour guide. The impresario conducts an inquiry after the theft, but the thief and his two associates, the ingénue and the technician, use what was stolen to set up a small theatre. Small everyday stories and comic incidents combine to create a portrait of modern-day Athens.

This is the story of divorced couple, of two young people who have a seven -year old daughter. The little girl lives with her mother, and her father lives in the same neighborhood, so that she can visit him often. The father comes up with the idea to install a closed TV- circuit between the two homes, so that his daughter can contact him any time of the day and thus feel less the separation of her parents. The mother permits the installation of the circuit... However, none of the two parents suspect that this new means of communication will ruin their clear cut relationship, since the circuit gives them the possibility to interfere in one another's privet live.

Jacques asks a public writer to write for him love letters intended to a beautiful stranger.

The dominant subject is time. Through an ordinary relationship between a young film-director and a journalist, who work together on a documentary on the great author Nikos Kazantzakis, arises the question of our link with the past and whether it exits. We all feel the need to make history, but we eventually realize that we cannot bring back or recreate the past through facts and people only. There are other elements as well (such as the wishes, the ambitions, the secret thoughts, the different attitudes towards behaviors and statements) which, though absolutely necessary for the objective evaluation of the past, are often omitted, being forgotten as time goes by. When the hero of the film reaches this conclusion, he leaves the documentary on Kazantzakis unfinished seeing it like a puzzle, some pieces of which are missing, while even those existing are not necessarily put in the right place. His girlfriend, the journalist, firmly disagrees with this attitude, considering it to be a luxury in our times' conventionalism This disagreement puts an end to the young couple's relationship that was built on their common effort in creating the documentary. The creators of this film, while never aiming at convincing the spectator, try to make as clearly as possible their point on an existential problem, naturally seen through their own angle.