The film is the first to take the complete musical work of composer Theodorakis as its main theme. It reveals his oeuvre as surprisingly little known. The multifaceted portrait was created in the awareness that consideration of Theodorakis will always go over and above his person and creative activity. In this regard the film is, in the best sense of the word, a sketch. It high- lights a unique body of work in musical history. In slightly under an hour, the chronologically structured documentary gives a concentrated overview of Theodorakis’ seven-odd decades of artistic creation - from the first songs and the Kassiani liturgy of a young Theodorakis, over the chamber music pieces and sinfonietta of the ‘forties and the Suite Nr. 1 for Piano and Orchestra, amongst other works from his Paris years, to the wide-ranging song writing of the ‘sixties, the Canto General Oratorio, the Symphony No 4, the rhapsodies for guitar and cello and the operas. The artist’s extremely eventful life is depicted in its symbiotic relationship to his compositions. Neither the music, nor his life, are presented without the context of European-Greek history - this forms the backdrop to which they unfold, revealing a panoramic image of their complexity. The film approaches the phenomenon that is Theodorakis by letting the composer expound and letting the music and images speak for themselves. Without comment or explanation, but, instead, in a spirit of participation, this is a cinematographic attempt to live up to the fascination of this wonderful man. Thoroughly authentic -such is the experience, and the discovery, of Theodorakis that this cinematic document presents.