A history lesson that seems to unfold at the speed of history, The Weeping Meadow recalls a few eventful decades in the history of modern Greece as seen through the eyes of two people who bore the brunt of its blows. Opening in 1919, Meadow frames a scene of ethnic Greeks returning to their homeland as they flee the changes that have swept Odessa in the wake of the Bolshevik revolution. In the center of the frame are a boy and a girl holding hands. They're raised together, but after growing up to be played by stars Alexandra Aidini and Nikos Poursadinis, they fall in love, and unbeknownst to others, have a set of twins out of wedlock. Later, Poursadinis' dad Vassilis Kolovos decides to marry Aidini, never minding that she's virtually his adoptive daughter. She flees to Poursadinis instead.
