A Greek-American filmmaker returns to his home town in northern Greece for a screening of his latest controversial film. His real reason for coming back, however, is to track down three long-missing reels of film by Greece’s pioneering Manakis brothers.

Behold the epic cinema of Theo Angelopoulos! Harvey Keitel plays an avatar of the Greek auteur, an accomplished director in a late period of reminiscence and rumination, in this monumental film that uses the screen as a canvas to explore post-communist Europe and the importance of cinema itself.