Stratos, an ex-con, struggles to help out his former mafia boss. Then, Stratos learns his loyalty is exploited.
By night, Stratos works in a bread factory but by day, he's a professional hit man. He needs the cash to free Leonidas from prison because the latter once saved his life when he was behind bars. For Stratos, this is simply a question of honour. We've no idea how many people he's already killed, but we do notice that he still has a conscience. He attentively looks after a neighbour's child, eight-year-old Katharina, as well as her mother and an uncle. At last he has enough money for the prison break-out. But Leonidas is lured into a bloody trap, by his brother of all people, who disappears with the money. At the same time Stratos learns that little Katharina is in danger - both psychologically and physically. He must act, even if this means following one wrongdoing with another.—Viennale
Stratos (Vangelis Mourikis) is a lowly middle-aged worker at an Athens bakery with a double life as a hit man, gunning down strangers for a mysterious paymaster called Painter. In his shadowy past, Stratos served a long jail sentence for murder, notching up a debt of gratitude to the crime godfather who saved his life in jail.
Trapped in a dog-eat-dog society where the strong trample over the weak, taciturn Stratos, a rehabilitated former convict, finds himself grappling with the ghosts of the past, an annoying sense of honour, and his equally guilty conscience. Forever indebted to his old mob boss Leonidas, the man who saved his life while incarcerated, Stratos works the night shift in a bakery to finance an audacious, winner-take-all plan. But, during the day, Stratos becomes a pitiless, cold-blooded contract killer bent on paying off his debts. However, the scheme is fraught with danger, and as Stratos is looking for redemption in all the wrong places, not even the loaded gun in his hand can keep him safe from harm and the catastrophic consequences of betrayal. Can there be salvation for the little fish in a big pond?—Nick Riganas
