Conspiracies (2003)

Fears for the future of mankind are overflowing. Society, in the middle of the 21st century is threatened by a devastated natural environment, overpopulation, unemployment, crime and an increase in different kinds of depression and nerve related illnesses. Earth is one single federation of cities. Greece is one of them. Every city-state has its governor and its local government, subject to the Higher Federal Government. But the political lobbies, the big companies, organized crime impose their own order, a situation, which most of the times surpasses law, creating its own dark reality… Nick Delios had been a top student of the University of Thessaloniki, specializing in medical software. His career was brilliant up to the day when the head of his scientific research team, Dimitris Argiriou, a member of the scientific and business elite, presented Nick's original and revolutionary research in electronic transplants programming, as his own achievement. When Nick reacted, Argiriou threw him out of the team, destroying at the same time, Nick's wedding to his sister, Annita. Nick, deeply hurt, abandoned his academic ambitions and adopted a bohemian way of life. After a period of living on the edge, gambling and drinking, Nick ends up earning his living as a detective, specialized in solving cases of industrial espionage, by using his medical studies and also his acquaintances of the underworld. When Thanos Pekas, Police Inspector and an old friend, asks him unofficially to help him solve a murder case of a small time crook, Nick, who needs the money, accepts without suspecting where he is about to get involved. This initially simple case, will lead him into a complex case of multiple conspiracies, where nothing is what it seems to be and which surpasses the borders of our very planet...