Tungsten
Two teenage boys, a ticket inspector, a young couple, immigrants, children, all cornered at the end of a blind alley in the center of Athens.
A black-and-white episodic film with standing-out aesthetics, spare, non-linear narration and tough language. Exclusion, violence, psychological cannibalism and consecutive power failures portray a society on the edge, "forgotten in the dark" as noted by of the characters. As victims and villains switch roles, a mechanism stronger than their own volition is revealed: the meat grinder of bounced checks, empty bank accounts and bankrupt dreams that moves the action forward to the point of dead end.
The film speaks of the violence that surrounds us and the way in which we reproduce it. Essentially, the theme of the movie is the human body's conductivity of violence.
It is an episodic film, composed of three different stories that intersect at several points.
The first story is about a ticket inspector (Vangelis Mourikis), who is buried in debt and is looking for ways to get out of debt, but also to keep his family together.
The second story is about a couple (Tasos Nousias - Kora Karvouni) that is one step away from breaking up.
The third story is about two teenage boys (Omiros Poulakis - Promitheas Aliferopoulos), who wander around the city, carrying with them an old revolver (family heirloom).
All three stories unfold within the time frame of a single day, during which the power is constantly down due to some strike. At the points when the three stories intersect, they also change direction. Victims become villains and vice-versa. Up until the final solution, where they all come face to face with the consequences of their actions.