37-year-old Panayiota leads a quiet, modest life with her demanding husband, rebellious teenage daughter, and sensitive younger son. Devoted but underappreciated, Panayiota is trapped within a domestic environment—until she finds autonomy in a job as a mall cleaner.

Director Nikos Labôt’s riveting social drama explores the bludgeoning impact of the Greek financial crisis on a middle-class family in Athens. The fissures in the social fabric are there for all to see, but so too is society’s need for strong female figures to overturn entrenched prejudices.