SYNOPSIS

George, an eighteen-year-old boy in a small village in Crete, prepares for the start of his compulsory military service, while his pale white python starts shedding its skin. A childhood friend, Phaedon, returns to the village after years of growing up abroad. The friend group’s careless celebrations before the parting will get disrupted by the unexpected pregnancy of George's girlfriend. A novelty that leads each one of them to chart their path to freedom. On these last days of summer, dreaming will give birth to their new skin at any cost.

INTENTION

Young people can still dream of freedom, but what happens when they are deprived of this right? The idea of the film found me as if in a dream on a beach in Crete, on a hot July afternoon, surrounded by groups of youngsters from the island, whose laughter overpowered the melodic singing of the tireless cicadas.

Since then it has developed into a fiction story researching the state of living of this young blood, in the middle of the West and the East, balancing between the dictations of the past and the promises of the future. Youngsters with dreams about an escape that often get forgotten, when they have to face the asphyxiating reality.

This coming-of-age story, infused with horror elements, embraces the stereotypical, theological, and mythological residues around womanhood and manhood that have survived to this day, and explores the current state of gender and sexuality that dominate the Greek countryside while searching for a liberating escape. How can our dreams and identities survive in a disorienting environment that tries to balance between the past and the future, without having redefined its own identity? Who is responsible for the suffocating death of this generation?