Màrkos

Port of Piraeus. Athens. 1920’s. Márkos, a young migrant from Syros Island, who works at the municipal slaughterhouse, lives in a poor house with his numerous family members. He is in love with Eléni, a beautiful woman of the same age. At the same time, Márkos is steeped into the new musical sounds brought in by refugees from Asia Minor – rebétiko – and the clandestine world it represents, taking the path of becoming the famous Márkos Vamvakáris, the patriarch of rebétiko.