The River is an existential love story of two people, who struggle to find themselves and their position in the world. A tragicomedy, about two different worlds, two “opponents” and their way to be one.

Makis’ world is a colorful, Americanized place of wealth and much waste, with typical road-movie spots: the big motorway, the big cars, the fast food diners, the huge parking lots. Makis, devoted on serving the common good, drives up and down the Motorway as a lonely knight.

On the other pole lies Maria‘s tiny and isolated world, a Mad Max-like community, that survives mostly from the modern world’s waste.

Both worlds seem as solid environments for the two characters to live in, as “a place to be”. But life is more chaotic. Just as like the carefree birds that fly around. Their unique and strong eyesight will warn them if something is wrong.  But birds cannot discriminate a very simple thing that stands in front of their eyes: the transparent sound barriers along the Motorway (the River).  

Makis and Maria will go on after their own crash, till they find their way to be free.