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A version of the contemporary Greek society characterized by solidarity and reflection a whole world struggling to look on-wards to the future.

This film will help to introduce rebetiko, a relatively unknown musical form outside of Greece to an international audience.

The documentary reflects on the phenomenon of addiction and the vocation of rehabilitation. It investigates the transition from the interwar coercive inhuman system of dealing with addictions to a human-centered, free, diverse therapeutic network of rehabilitation, established for decades in Greece: DETOX (IANOS), PETHEA "Argo, P.P.SELFHELP, 18ANO.

A documentary film focusing on Leonidas Lambrou, a businessman born and raised in the city of Nafplio,an 86 years old ordinary man with an extraordinary life.

I AM AN OTHER - from treatment (18 Ano) to social integration. We often wonder what happens to people who finish a rehabilitation program and then try to integrate into society. Do they succeed? This documentary portrays the cases of people who finished the 18 ANO program and have been sober for some years now. We watch snapshots of their lives and we listen to them talking about their efforts to find a job, to become creative, to continue or to reverse unfinished business, to face the problems bequeathed by their addiction, to build a new relationship with their parents and their children, as well as friendships and loves. If man is not born but rather becomes someone, those people's efforts evoke one's at- tempt to find a new pace after any inescapable misfortune may be brought upon him. (18 Ano is an Alcohol - Drug Rehabilitation Unit)

Nafplio's Syntagma Square is unique. A true pleasure of time "is our history. It is neither the square's history nor Nafplio's history, it's the history of Greece". It has changed many forms and names and gives the stigma in today's city. It is surrounded by buildings of various eras and cultures bearing memories of Ottoman, of Venetian, of neoclassical and of later eras, that to this day they retain the aesthetics of their original construction. Shall we go to the square?