di Fillipos Tsitos (Gre, 2009, 103') v.o., sott. it. mer 9 h 17,40
Athens, Plato's Academy district. A quiet crossroads with three tobacco stores and a dog. Stavros owns one of the stores. His wife has left him and refuses to come back; his mother has had a stroke and he must take care of her round the clock. The three tobacconists' favourite hobby is counting the Chinese, who are setting up their shop across the street. They only stop counting if an Albanian walks past. Then, they bet on whether the dog will bark at the him or not. This is their second favourite hobby. That is how they spend their life, idly and contentedly watching life go by outside their stores. Until one day, an Albanian, who goes past the three men, recognises Stavros's mother as his own long-lost mother.
