The film transports us through the mega infrastructure which fuelled Greece’s decade of rapid growth, the pinnacle of which was the 2004 Olympic Games – but this infrastructure now seems to be an absurd monument. In three chapters (privatised, devalued and militarised) the film navigates its way through the past and the present of the crisis as it gets inscribed in Athens dwellers’ minds and as it plays out in their everyday lives. It tries to find answers for questions such as: How does a global financial crisis permeate the spaces of the everyday in a city? Why and how do devaluation, violence and estrangement become the replacement of democratic values?
