To Nisi

Storyline

The Island is a hymn to life and power of man. A story that takes us to beautiful and wild landscape of Crete and the fascinating lives from 1939 to today. The Island tells us a story about the greatness of the man who succeeds even when fate shows the most merciless face to find the strength needed to love, to dream, to live ... Across from the Plaka, a charming village of Crete, overlooking Spinalonga, the island with the old Venetian fortress, the island that for decades was the mandatory place of exile for lepers. The young Alexis, looking for roots, will make a trip to the past and will dive to the shocking stories of great women's 3 generations of her family. Petrakis family marked by illness and the intense passions ... Through the narratives of elderly Fotini, Alexis will learn the story of Helen's great grandmother, loud and dative teacher of Plaka and girls, its sweet, delicate and beautiful Maria and ambitious Anne. And around these exceptional women, some men apart, brave, strong, full of vigor and passion. Men who have marked their presence in their lives by bringing love, love, consolation, the loss or salvation. George Loud, the unlucky Andreas, mercurial Manolis, Antonis the untamed, the decisive Papadimitriou, devout doctor Kyritsis. And the people of the island, who despite his illness and the threat of death have not waived the right to life and continued to fight, to dream and love ... Through this long journey in the past, Alexis will come to understand more deeply the mother, the secretive and introverted Sofia who never compromised with the secrets of her family and made it her life away from the place that has caused so much pain.