The acclaimed Greek director returns with a bittersweet story about the need for human contact. Two men are hired to keep watch on a home in Athens, where a room is illegally built. They will meet many passers-by, some of whom are in fact building inspectors attempting to catch them in the act.

A family of four lives isolated in a wetland. Their home is surrounded by water and vivaria. The children are playing outdoors, the mother is trying to preserve their innocence, and everyone is walking a fine line between the arrival of the third child and the impending death of the father.

The complex, adulating, and passionate story of being a mother.