Fools gold

This is how Myrsini Panayotou, an Athenian girl about to start university, learns of the coup d' etat that brought to power the infamous dictatorship of the 'Colonels' in her country in the early hours of 21st Arpril 1967. The child of a well-to-do family, Myrsini enthusiastically joins the underground resistance, making common cause with a varied cast of characters from backgrounds vey different from her own. After an early failed love affair she gets engaged to George, a political prisoner, only to find her human instincts increasingly difficult to reconcile with her idealistic philosophy once he is released.