Hard Goodbyes: My Father

Elias, a ten year-old boy who lives in Athens in the late ’60s, suddenly loses his father. The members of the family try, each in his own particular way, to deal with the unexpected event… except for the boy. He is waiting for him to return from one of his usual business trips. He continues to play their favorite games with him, acting out both roles of the game. He is absolutely certain that his father will return, so they can both watch the American landing on the moon for the first time on television. The moon landing takes place. And… so does Elias who takes his final leave of his father for the first time. Only then he realizes that he has been left completely alone. At first he gets angry but in the end he understands. He grows up abruptly. A new era begins for young Elias.