The character of Fanis Iakovides as a youngster is played by Markos Osse and the supporting role of Fanis's grandfather, Vassilis, is played by Tassos Bandis. At what time Fanis was 7 years aged, his grandfather Vassilis was an owner of a general store with a specialty in spices. He was too a cooking philosopher plus his adviser. Fanis grew very attached to his grandfather who would assist with his training using imaginative techniques.

For example, Vassilis would educate his grandson the planets of the Solar System by showing an illustration of it and replacing the planets by means of spices. Cinnamon took the put of Venus as according to Vassilis, "similar to every one women, cinnamon is together bitter plus sugary". Fanis also fell in love intended for the first time in his grandfather store's higher floor with a young Turkish girl, Saime. Since Vassilis was the owner of a Turkish passport, he was forced to stay behind while his grandson Fanis and his parents enthused to Athens. Fanis had trouble at first adapting in Greece, constantly annoying to spend his time in the kitchen cooking, as it was the only connection between him and his homeland.

However, this would distress his mother who was afraid that the young man was either severely depressed or a homosexual. Fanis grew from childhood to adulthood, preserving his cooking talents and often contribution his secrets of the Istanbul (Politiki) Cooking to those so as to ask for his help. As the years passed by, plus the tension between Turkey plus Greece resolved, grandfather Vassilis made several promises to visit his grandson in Athens but unsuccessful to stay them. The reason for the last incompletion of this engagement was his heavily declining physical condition.

Jointly they reflect on their lives plus the way politics managed to change all. Fanis will finally realize that opposing to what his grandfather had taught him, he forgot to put a small bit of interest in his own existence. You be able to assist by increasing it.