Alexandre, a famous Greek poet with a fatal disease, finds that he must face the meaningless of accomplishment and the terror of solitude in the face of impending death, as he rises for the last time in his ancestral home by the sea. Having abandoned his last project - the completion of a poem left unfinished by a 19th-century Greek poet - and estranged from his daughter, Alexandre finds himself involved with a little boy, one of thousands of illegal immigrants from Albania.
With the escalating ethnic turmoil in the Balkan region during the 1990s, Angelopoulos returned to the theme of the nation's historically organic, cross-cultural migration with films like The Suspended Step of the Stork and Ulysses' Gaze. With the gloriously photographed Eternity and a Day he won the prestigious Palm D'Or in Cannes.
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