Nikos meets one of Greece’s billionaire shipowners who takes him to the island that he and other, often reclusive, ship owning families call home. From there, Nikos travels to Agathonisi and goes on patrol with the Hellenic Coast Guard to intercept asylum seeker boats.
In Naxos, Nikos meets the flamboyant local harbour master and a billionaire property tycoon with a magnificent cruiser. He tries his hand at windsurfing and spends a crazy 24-hours on the party island of Ios.
Nikos arrives in Athens and meets his mentor, Captain Makis. Makis teaches him to contextualise Greece’s current economic woes and encourages him to travel to Kythera and Salamis. There Nikos learns more about the historic and social basis of Greece’s maritime mastery.
Fierce competition among sponge fishermen forces a Greek-American family to fish in the dangerous 12-mile reef area off the western coast of Florida.
