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But the children of the village, the few who had returned with their parents from the cities, whispered a different story. They said that in the night, if you pressed your ear to the hives, you could hear a woman’s voice singing lullabies in the old dialect. They said the Angelopoulos bees never stung. They said the honey tasted like tears—but in a good way. Like someone you had lost had just come home.

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(Mastroianni), a retired schoolteacher who abandons his family and home in northern Greece following his daughter's wedding. He embarks on a nomadic journey southward with his truck full of beehives, following the traditional "beekeeper's route" in search of spring flowers. The Hitchhiker But the children of the village, the few

Cold, mist-covered peaks where his memories felt sharpest. They said the honey tasted like tears—but in a good way

(Mastroianni), a retired schoolteacher and life-long beekeeper, who feels increasingly disconnected from his family and modern society. After the wedding of his youngest daughter, he leaves his wife and home to embark on an annual "pollen route," traveling from northern to southern Greece with his beehives. The Beekeeper's Melancholia: On Theo Angelopoulos's Style