When housekeeper Nadja (an uninsured guest worker from Georgia) falls ill, her relationship with her employers (members of the Greek upper class) is put to the test. Behind the affable confidentiality with which Evi and Stefanos suggest to Nadja that she belongs to the family, the power and dependency structures that actually form the basis of the relationship come to light.
The action of At Home (Sto Spiti) takes place in a modernist concrete and glass metal building built precariously on a steep bank with a sweeping view over the Aegean Sea. Athanasios Karanikolas - born in Thessaloniki in 1967; studied photography, media art and film in New York, Düsseldorf and Berlin; works as a lecturer, film and theater director - stages this “home” in the colour palette of grey-blue-brown as a sharp-edged (status) symbol organized in horizontal and vertical lines. The only soft and round elements in this space are the human bodies that move around in it, but seem unable to give each other any (more) warmth. At Home can be read as a metaphorical representation of the Greek crisis, but is also the story of a simple, hard-working woman who unexpectedly looks into the ugly grimaces of exploitation and homelessness.
