Strella
2009 film by Panos H. Koutras
Strella (Greek: Στρέλλα; international title: A Woman's Way) is a 2009 Greek drama film written and directed by Panos H. Koutras. The film centres around the relationship between an ex-convict recently released from jail, and a young transgender sex worker that he meets and forms a romance with.
Plot
After serving fourteen years in prison for murder in his Greek village, Yiorgos Mihalopoulos is released and spends his first night in a cheap Athens hotel, where he meets Strella, a young and beautiful transgender prostitute. While searching for his estranged son Leonidas, he reconnects with her; that night, after whiskey and despite her initial resistance, the two have sex.
Strella lives in her humble apartment and works at a club called The Dolls where she performs in drag. After a failed search for Leonidas, Strella invites Yiorgos to see her perform, and later lets him stay in her place where they have sex again. Yiorgos moves out of the hotel after Strella offers to let him stay temporarily.
Strella visits Mary, her elderly cancer-stricken trans guardian who raised her, bringing morphine patches and fixing her television. She tells Mary about her new lover, but Mary urges Strella to stop her unspecified pursuit. Mary then reminisces about her late lover Anestis and shares her funeral plans.
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