At 50 years old, Nikos seems to have fallen out of time: The long-established Athenian tailor only makes bespoke suits: made from high-quality fabric, perfectly cut and priced accordingly. Together with his elderly father, Nikos runs a store that the bank is already threatening to foreclose on because he is increasingly running out of customers - the competition from cheap ready-made goods from China or Bangladesh is too great.
Nikos has to come up with something - and he finds his niche: female customers would still be willing to spend money on wedding dresses. Based on the principle that if the philosopher doesn't come to the mountain, the mountain will come to the philosopher, Nikos constructs a traveling tailor's workshop and visits his customers directly at home.
German-Greek director Sonia Liza Kenterman's small, but very fine, detailed film tells the story of a love story that develops between Nikos and the mother of a young daughter. The backdrop of the omnipresent economic crisis in Greece today unfolds just as unobtrusively. In quietly comedic scenes and with partly fairytale-like tones, the delightful departure of an outsider who has to reinvent himself once again - in a coming of age delayed by 30 years - unfolds.
“Set against the backdrop of a severe economic crisis, this charming debut feature film uses gentle comedic scenes to depict the journey of an outsider who reinvents himself, at times taking on a fairy-tale-like tone.” (Lexikon des Internationalen Films)
At 50 years old, Nikos seems to have fallen out of time: The long-established Athenian tailor only makes bespoke suits: made from high-quality fabric, perfectly cut and priced accordingly. Together with his elderly father, Nikos runs a store that the bank is already threatening to foreclose on because he is increasingly running out of customers - the competition from cheap ready-made goods from China or Bangladesh is too great.
Nikos has to come up with something - and he finds his niche: female customers would still be willing to spend money on wedding dresses. Based on the principle that if the philosopher doesn't come to the mountain, the mountain will come to the philosopher, Nikos constructs a traveling tailor's workshop and visits his customers directly at home.
German-Greek director Sonia Liza Kenterman's small, but very fine, detailed film tells the story of a love story that develops between Nikos and the mother of a young daughter. The backdrop of the omnipresent economic crisis in Greece today unfolds just as unobtrusively. In quietly comedic scenes and with partly fairytale-like tones, the delightful departure of an outsider who has to reinvent himself once again - in a coming of age delayed by 30 years - unfolds.
“Set against the backdrop of a severe economic crisis, this charming debut feature film uses gentle comedic scenes to depict the journey of an outsider who reinvents himself, at times taking on a fairy-tale-like tone.” (Lexikon des Internationalen Films)