Is she a vain petty bourgeois who flatters herself by seducing celebrities? What is Lina's motivation as she gambles with her life, separating and forming – amid a crisis – a business and romantic circle with trusted schoolmates and distinguished but distant lovers?
When their grand poses fade into trivial roles, she will burst out: "Is there not even one man with some courage and a little poetry within him?". Her friend Manos, or "Godard," declares: "The bankruptcy didn't touch me; I made love during the Lost Decade."
Lina is haunted by the unknown odyssey of her Turkish-speaking Pontian great-grandmother, the charismatic Virgin Mary of the uprooted, the beauty who wandered with the ship of death in the Black Sea, took root in Macedonia, created the unique women's cooperative settlement and fought waiting... for nothing.
Women, women who stay awake when others sleep, and exceptional men: Spyros with the utopia of the Stiletto; the Great Pianist; the Jewish Aaron; the "innovator"; the elder Stylianos; the "star"; the... Stories, stories overwhelm us with secret nostalgia, synchronizing unexpectedly and posing to each one the crucial question: Can a life filtered through so many disappointments, thwarted hopes, and betrayals be futile?
Small dramas on the canvas of Great History cast – a hundred years after the Pontian Genocide – a different light on the enigmas of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, and Thrace. In the end, we find ourselves as fellow travelers in the Floating Utopia, searching for the Hyperborean of future generations.
