Director: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Juliane Köhler, Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, Léa Wiazemsky, Eric Caravaca, Ulrich Tukur

France-Italy-Greece, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 110'
French-German-Greek-English; Turkish s.t.

Just like in The Odyssey, it is in the Aegean Sea that the adventures of Elias begin: a road trip of drama, poetry and humour... A rusting fishing ship packed with men, women and children slowly approaches the bright lights of an emerging shore. Desperate, the illegal immigrants hope they're going to the West, an actual as well as mythical place. But, when a coast guard appears, Elias and his friend jump overboard and swim to shore. Elias finds himself in a luxury resort called Eden. His extraordinary journey from there to reach Paris takes him across a microcosm of contemporary Europe. As a Greek immigrant living in Paris himself, the master director of political films, Gavras has crafted an epic story for our times.