The Runaway Day is a black and white 16mm film based on familiar patterns of b-movies and aims to portray the despair felt by modern Greeks in contemporary Athens, a city that is in full decay . That same feeling seems to feel and the Athenians while stifling and increasing pressure leads to a mass exodus , a pandemic character escape to an unknown destination . Beyond the irresistible tendency to run away , the next effect that the phenomenon has to the residents of the city is to bring to the fore the deepest and most untold desires. As the spiral of the film΄s story unfolds , it comes to the foreground the dreary environment where Runaway Day takes place : Athens , a once beautiful city, collapses progressively along with the western culture.
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