A young maid working in a well-to-do residence in Athens commits suicide. Angela comes up from the country and takes her place. She meets the brother of the unfortunate girl and falls in love with him. He is trying to find out who’s responsible for his sister’s death. But it’s not long before he realizes that he’s tangled up in something far darker than he could ever has suspected. “Angela” by Giorgos Sevastikoglou was written in Moscow in 1957. It presents a realistic portrayal of a post-civil war Greece plagued by unemployment and corruption through the eyes of its most vulnerable social group: the country women who have come to the city to work in bourgeois homes, where they are exploited absolutely and enjoy no rights at all. Their oppression, in which the authorities are complicit, sets the scene for horror and for a cover-up. From the rooftops of these wealthy homes, the women articulate a voice through their guilt, hope and rejection. A voice of submission, a yell of resistance or a howl of despair?