Christine Meltzer

Marianne is 44, she is married to Gustav and they have two teenagers. The passion between Marianne and Gustav has been gone for awhile and all that is left is a conventional, sexless relationship. Marianne has had enough. She wants a divorce or at least a separation! She wants to live life to its fullest and take full advantage of the single life. Gustav on the other hand is confused by the whole situation and in a moment of madness makes a rash decision and quits his life to become a poet. Things get even more complicated when Marianne meets Rudolfo, an exciting, sensitive and impulsive artist who is nothing like Gustav. Because suddenly Gustav realizes that he might not be ready to give up on Marianne.

Tsatsiki longs for the summer holidays when he will go to Greece to see his father, Yanis. When he arrives in Agios Ammos, the village has changed. Hotels and restaurants are deserted. There is a financial crisis in Greece and his beloved village isn't as he remembered. With the prospect of selling their hotel and olive grove, Tsatsiki is heartbroken, but his mother taught him to never give up.

Recently dumped by his girlfriend, a heartbroken man heads to a midsummer party on the Swedish archipelago, hoping to find the woman of his dreams.