Exodus 1826

Captain Michos Floros returns to Samarina. What he is after is to gather men. He will lead them to Messolonghi. There they will join General Makris’s forces. His friend Elias Manakas helps him. They set out with twenty five men. In Messolonghi they are to meet Zisis Hatzimati and the others. The journey begins on 31 March 1826 and goes through the mountains. Meanwhile the women in the village put questions to Eleni Florou. They want to know why the men left so suddenly. In the same days Ibrahim Pasha and Nihat Servan, the commander at Arta, prepare their final attack. Dimitris Papadopoulos and Leonidas Kakouris take the leads in Vasilis Tsikaras’s Greek film of 2017.