The Amorgos Conspiracy

In the first years of the colonels’ dictatorship, among the many dissidents who are persecuted, a centre-leftist minister of the Giorgos Papandreou government – Giorgos Mylonas – is arrested and deported to Amorgos. His son-in-law, Elias Kulukundis, a Greek of the diaspora and scion of a shipowner family, takes the initiative of saving Mylonas, defying his conservative heritage and the great difficulties of such an enterprise. He contacts self-exiled politicians and resistance networks abroad and travels from Geneva to Cyprus and from London to Italy, helped by a group of Italian volunteers, organizing Mylonas’ liberation. The Amorgos Conspiracy describes this tough and complex journey in a gloomy political atmosphere and sketches with precision quite a few statesmen of the era: Andreas Papandreou, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Vassos Lyssarides, Pablo.