Maria Kitsou

The heart chooses whom it calls its own child! Using the powerful and sensitive issue of child abuse as its vehicle, the series tells the gripping story of a woman who responds to the silent cries for help of an abused girl. At the same time, it focuses on the moving theme of mother-daughter relationships. Despite the weight of its subject matter, at the core of this compelling drama lies one central idea: love.

A fictional series starring Elena Charalamboudi and Alexandros Tsouvelas in the leading roles, with the creative team of 5 MINUTE MUM behind the cameras. A series of standalone episodes about two couples, two eras, but one common denominator: human relationships. The beloved duo, through improvisation and caustic scripts, plays the two different couples, then and now. The episodes of the series are self-contained, and in each one we watch simple everyday stories, such as marriage, children, entertainment, buying a car, holidays, and everything related to family. THEN AND NOW has many comical and ethnographic elements, combining laughter with emotion and highlighting the differences and similarities between two eras through the lives of two couples.

Through the arch of time, a journey begins with a starting point in 1710... Mani lives under the rule of the Venetians. The Venetian governor of the area Silvio Esposito and his wife Renata live in the tower of the Lascarians, having won the respect and acceptance of the local community.

1817. Mani, Greece. Two rivals families decide to marry their children. After a while their grandchild is born and found dead in the river. Everyone blames Theofano, a girl, who is a witch.

Every time a daughter was born, the father of Eleni, Asimina and Froso planted a poplar tree at the edge of their orchard to commemorate the arrival of the new child. As they grew and grew tall and slender, he boasted of them as his daughters. In the proudest poplar, however, Helen's poplar, a swarm of wild bees had already nested. "You will be happy, my daughter, and life will be as sweet as this honey. You'll see," her father used to tell her. But, the years passed and Eleni looked at the poplar and listened to the hum... "How do you know, father... How do you know that life has written only bitterness for my root".

The series describes the life of the poet Kostas Karyotakis. It follows his life from his teenage years and sheds light on unknown aspects of his artistic and professional life. A special place is occupied by the part about his relationship with the poet Maria Polydouri. Through the lives of the two protagonists, the politically and socially turbulent period of the 1910s and 1920s is projected.