Between the turbulent years of 1939 and 1952, a traveling drama troupe jourmeys from province to province, village to village, performing Persiadis′ Golfo the Shepherdess. The increasingly impoverished actors relationship to each other is like an Aeschylus tragedy and each member has his or her ideological color: collaborator, opportunist, centrist, leftist, communist and apolitical. And they play out their dramatic roles off stage as well, as a betraying wife, aimless general and vengeful son. The Travelling Players is an epic film revealing the chaotic years around the Second World War. It is comprised of a series of individual tableaux, with context and comment coming from songs, personal monologues or slogans written on walls. The history unfolding around the players is recapitulated in symbols, and though the players never have a chance to finish the play, the sheep painted on their theater cloth witness years of bloodshed and misery. As the company unknowingly begins to act out parts of Aeschylus, we see that The Travelling Players is about the world just beyond the stage.