A husband whose young wife has committed suicide meets for the first and
last time his Russian mother-in-law who has arrived to collect the
coffin. A quiet war is declared between them. During the sleepless
night, attempting to understand the motives of her sudden act, he
recounts in the first person, both accuser and accused, their brief and
impossible relationship. In "Rakushka'(the shell), the eighteen years
old cellist, Zogia Petrova, an immigrant from Taskent seeks a future in
Athens of today. Vassilis, the enigmatic middle-aged pawnbroker, is
quickly enchanted when she visits him as a customer. He pursues her and
finally she accepts marriage. Very soon their relationship develops a
conflict. Vassilis from being her protector he moves to becoming her
jailer. Their social, age and cultural gap, his possessiveness, her
forced isolation will lead to rebellion, eventually to a state of silent
sickness and finally to her fatal decision...
