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The film, written and directed by Argyris Papadimitropoulos tells the story of Kostis (Makis Papadimitriou), a doctor who ended up on the small island of Antiparos. The winter passes monotonously, with its eight hundred inhabitants awaiting the beautiful season, when the island is populated by uninhibited young people.

Precisely in the summer Kostis meets Anna (Elli Tringou), to whom he gives first aid for a leg wound, and is immediately enchanted by it. He thus begins to frequent the beach where she spends time in the company of some friends. Kostis is overweight, bald and rather introverted, therefore uncomfortable on a nudist beach.

But the young people welcome him and start dating. During a pool party Kostis suffers when he sees the ease with which Anna behaves with other men: he feels like a fish out of water. Nonetheless, the two have sexual intercourse, but Anna distances herself from him, throwing him into the deepest desperation. As if that wasn't enough, Kostis's behavior is stigmatized by the local community, due to his interactions and the lightness with which he approaches his work. In the end he is fired. Seduced and abandoned, the man finally loses his mind, and when he confronts the girl in rude ways, he is thrown out of a club. Completely lacking in self-control, he kidnaps Anna's friend, drugs her and tries to abuse her, but gives up, realizing the brutality of what he is doing. He takes care of the unfortunate woman, torn by guilt and frustration. The epilogue sees the protagonist swallowed up by a vortex that drags him into the abyss of destructive emotions.

We could define Kostis as a modern Anti-Ulysses, on the other hand we are in the Greek archipelago with a predominantly Greek cast. However, unlike the Homeric hero who exerts the charm of the castaway foreigner on the female figures of the islands where he lands, Suntan's perspective is completely reversed: it is the middle-aged doctor who is seduced by the modern nymph Anna, landed - not shipwrecked - on the island of Antiparos. But Kostis' relationship is not the privileged one of Ulysses with the various women, divine and human (Circe, Calypso, Ino and Athena), who provide him with comfort and advice during his journey. On the contrary, the story of the protagonist of the film seems to be influenced by diabolical rather than divine entities, which will lead him towards the excruciating pains of Hades. Papadimitropoulos would seem to want to highlight the trajectory towards the decline of our increasingly post-historical, individualistic and in the midst of "demographic winter" Western society.