The Athenians

This is a series of intersecting stories A petty crook and former lover of a lazy ingénue steals the boxoffice receipts from the Odeon of Herodus Atticus on the day an important football game is also taking place There is also the story of the halfmad mother of the ingénue who refuses to put shoes on because she believes that shoes lead people astray An eccentric gravedigger produces a twoseater coffin for couplevictims of car accidents The film also tells the story of one of the Odeons cleaning women and of a watermelon that goes all around the city pursued by a tired theater technician and his sister who is a tour guide The impresario conducts an inquiry after the theft but the thief and his two associates the ingénue and the technician use what was stolen to set up a small theatre Small everyday stories and comic incidents combine to create a portrait of modernday Athens