The
film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their
compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the
military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently
founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the
civilian population, was run by the Cinematographic Unit of the army
which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and
was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity
organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly
of soldiers, who already had experience in the film business in their
civilian lives, as well as those who received their training in the
army. The story may be only 95% true, but that is simply because the
true story is even more absurd...