The Greek TV series «Οι Αθώοι» has a number of Albanian characters, garnering significant following in the country’s Albanian community due to touching a number of important contemporary issues. What are your thoughts?

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Said issues include, among others: sexual violence, immigration, identity shift between the first and second generation, interactions between the first and second generation, bullying, racism, acceptance of the neurodivergant.

Being based in the 1919 novel “The convict” by Konstantinos Theotokis.

Spoiler alert: >!Himariote Areti, (Amalia Kavali) gets pregnant after being brutally raped, nearly to the point of death, by a roving bandit and escapes from the shame of the act to Corfu. Being a foreigner and an unmarried, she and her kid, Giannis (played by the adolescent Marccelo Hoxha and the adult Kostas Niculi) don’t have the best of times. Years latter, Giannis starts a relationship with his childhood sweetheart Margarita (Christinna Heila-Fameli) who loves him; meanwhile Areti has build a life for her and her son by the skin of her teeth. Maragrita begins, however, a relationship with their friend Petros (Giannis Niaros) who does not have his emotional, health (he neurodivergant) and class ‘baggage’ and marries him. Meanwhile, fellow Stephania (Loukia Mihalopoulou) sees her opening for Giannis who she is smitten for since kids.!<