Smyrna, September 1922. Twelve-year-old Panagiotis works at a seaside café. There he meets a customer who introduces himself as "Mr. X," who assigns him a mission: to deliver an envelope to General Hipparchus, who is at the Greek Headquarters in Smyrna. One warm evening, Panagiotis and his friend Nikolaos are taking a walk at the harbor when they come across...