Consumer Society

A ruthless businessman and publisher of the newspaper "The Truth" takes advantage of a cleaning lady's seriously ill eight-year-old son by sending him off to Paris for treatment at the newspaper's expense - and then publicizing this act of "generosity" in his newspaper, dramatically increasing circulation. The youth recovers, but while growing up he is faced with other situations. One day, now a thirty-year-old man, he comes down with influenza. Since he is unemployed and penniless, he can't manage the situation on his own. He sends his wife to the son of his erstwhile benefactor to ask for money to buy medicine. The son, however, even more unscrupulous than his father, refuses to help him. So, the unfortunate man, who cheated death when he had leukemia, now succumbs to influenza. —Greek Film Archive