O Hristos xanastavronetai
Season 1
In the hinterland of Asia Minor in the village Lykovrysi 1921. Residents had an old custom, every seven years did the representation of the Passion of Christ and had to choose some of the men of the village that portrays the Apostles and one that impersonated him Christ. The elders of the village gather and decide who they will assign the roles. The elders decide to give John the role of the Patriarcheas son, Michelis, the role of Peter in Giannakos, the role of Magdalen in Katerina, the harlot of the village, the role of Judas in Panagiotaros, and finally the role of Christ in the most an innocent man who was none other than the shepherd of the sheep of Patriarcheas, Manolios. Then refugees arrive from a distant village that the Turks looted and try to find a place to settle down with what valuable things they managed to get with them. Their chief is a priest, Papa-Fotis. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of Lykovrisi drove them instigated by Papa-Grigoris not to let them stay because they found that one of the refugee women had cholera. Manolios, however, with Giannakos, Michelis and the other "apostles" tells them to go to Sarakina where there are caves to stay there. But the dealers do not want them either.