Danae Skiadi

One evening close to Christmas, the tree, having seen the splendidly trimmed Christmas trees standing in the windows of nearby houses, and longing to be as beautiful as they are, begs the boy to trim it too. But the boy has neither ornaments nor money to buy any, in fact he has nothing. How can he make this withered, shriveled tree look beautiful, there in the middle of a filthy, freezing pavement? And yet this night will prove to be a very different night from every other. It will be a night when dreams come true, a night of enchantment and magic.

Drama, inspired in part by a true event, the infamous massacre of the town of Kalavryta by Nazi troops on December 13th, 1943. The story is being told through a series of flashbacks as Nikolaos Andreou, an acclaimed writer dying of cancer, poignantly narrates his personal experience as a young child to Caroline Martin, a top-notch lawyer representing Germany's Federal government on the recently filled Greek WWII reparations claims. The two characters each harboring its own prejudices, beliefs, and life's traumas are brought together by a divisive past that was meant to keep them apart. Their fateful meeting in the town of Kalavryta, a place still marked by the tragedy of old, will open the path to an arduous journey through a dark chapter in human history and have a profound effect on both as they struggle, together as well as each in its own way, to understand and come to terms with history's enduring lessons and deep scars.