Series of half-hour documentaries on various neighborhoods of Athens.

Each neighborhood corresponds to an architectural concept-word that characterizes it both physically and socially. This word serves as a guide in the perspective, the selection of characters, and the elements of each neighborhood's portrait.

Exarcheia of challenge, Kolonaki of aristocracy, Omonia of the marginalized, Kypseli of immigrants, Kaisariani of refugees, Kifissia of decentralization, Aspropyrgos of the industrial zone, Paleo Faliro of memory, Akadimia Platonos of glorious past, Ekali of the elite, Ilion of denial, Perama of shipyards, Olympic Village of youthful dominance, Gerakas of anarchic development.

Historical and new neighborhoods of Athens reveal their true nature through a conceptual game with the words that architecturally and sociologically characterize them, the people who inhabit them, and the position they claim in the new cultural map of a city that stubbornly refuses to acquire a specific identity, constantly balancing between its heavy past, transient present, and uncertain future.

Three young directors - each with their own perspective - discover the keyword of each neighborhood, overturn their apparent dynamics, renegotiate the image bestowed upon them by "urban myths," and unlock what lies behind the captivating everyday life of its inhabitants, thus completing the re-mapping of a familiar "unknown" city in the most transparent manner.

Director Thomas Kiaos introduces Exarcheia through its walls. Walls-newspapers, walls-canvases of underground culture, permeable walls among a socially diverse human material, walls that bear the weight of most of this city's libraries, virtual walls between the system of urban lifestyle and the anti-system of alternative residents in the neighborhood.

Walls made of the bodies of shield-bearing instruments of order, these concrete or metaphorical dividers acquire symbolic substance in Exarcheia, just as this enclosed area of the city center symbolically introduces itself to the rest of the city.

How can such seemingly rigid and absolute boundaries signify communication, challenge the authority of the private, encapsulate the need for human society, assert the sovereignty of public space and discourse, and serve as a surface of encounter rather than isolation?

The camera encounters them, the significant outpourings of human expression that flow within the half-hour, the faces of those participating in the unfolding of the place: the elderly resident, the cool young settler, the renowned author, the rider of an old BMW with a basket, the intellectual graffiti artist, and of course, the common backdrop of "Exarcheia."