A homecoming

On any given day, in a sleepy rural village near Kalamata, a group of elderly men gather at the kafeneio for a drink and lively conversation. Nothing unusual about that until you get to know them.

Although they were all born in this village, at least half of them are called "the foreigners." They are the ones who left many years ago as children or young men. Like many young people today, they left for a better future overseas.

However, life was much worse for them. They didn't leave with university degrees; rather, they set out with barely more than the clothes on their back.

The oldest ones remember the horrors of war, hunger, and deaths at the hands of the invaders in the village square. But they all see this as the only place to spend their golden years. The reasons for their return are different but at the core identical, they have all come home.

They...