A conceited janitor for the Municipality of Athens decides to provide his six-year-old son with an elite education and enrolls him in the first grade of a private school. With each step he takes toward the “Greek dream,” he sinks deeper and deeper into a tragicomic conflict with those around him, and ultimately with himself.

Tassos Gerakinis is a surveyor engineer (1994). He began his career in cinema working in the production of short and feature films. In 2002, written, directed and produced by himself, he created the short film THE CRISIS and in 2005 the short film OUT OF SCHEDULE. This was followed by the creation of the short film CAN ANYONE HEAR ME? (2007), in co-production with ERT (Microfilm), also written and directed by him (based on the short story of the same name by Ersi Sotiropoulou), winning an award from the Greek Film Center and an honorary distinction from the Ministry of Culture. In 2019, he completed his first feature film, A SIMPLE MAN, produced by Bad Crowd and co-produced by the Greek Film Center, ERT, Faliro House, Arctos SA and Arizona Prod, which received positive reviews, was presented at festivals around the world and was screened exclusively at ASTY Cinema, distributed by Bad Crowd (NOV 2021). In 2022, he was the producer on the short film FAULT as part of the Greek Film Council's Covid 19 program, directed by Katerina Papanastasatou, which premiered at the 44th International Film Festival of Drama. This year (2025), he completed his second feature film, THE ROOSTER, produced by the recently founded company DECA PRODUCTIONS. He is a member of the Greek Directors Guild.

2025, Thessaloniki IFF

2026, Bengaluru IFF

2026, 23rd San Francisco GFF - Audience Award