Synopsis

The late 1960s: television is making a big entrance into our lives - or, to be more precise, into our living rooms. Families and friends gather around it every afternoon in a Greece under dictatorship, dreaming of a better future, but not yet knowing when it will come. Times are difficult, but also full of hope...

The guide on this journey is eight-year-old Angelos, the youngest son of a family of five - six with his demonic grandmother Hermione - the Antonopoulou family, who have moved to Athens from Messinia in search of a better tomorrow.

The brand new black and white television arrives at the Antonopoulos home in July 1969, on Angelos' eighth birthday, which he will celebrate in the first episode.

With the voice of Angelos, we will not only wander through the history of Greek television, namely ERT, but we will watch every night how the Greek family has finally evolved over time. From the dictatorship to the post-opposition, and then to the 1980s. Through the eyes of an eight-year-old child, who of course will also grow from week to week, we will see, with humour and nostalgia, the lives of three generations of Greeks.

The family tables at which it was a crime to be late. The games in the alpine pastures, the stone war, the gas stoves, the "Serafino" from the neighborhood convenience store. The sexual revolution with 19-year-old Elpida, Angelo's sister, being the first to dare to wear a bikini. Their 17-year-old brother Antonis, who entered law school and brings home every night the news about the "reds, the gendarmes, the informers". But also the small dreams that every Greek family had at that time and were capable of changing our lives. Like getting a washing machine after the TV...

"Our best years" will, above all, awaken memories of how impressively Greece has changed and how our habits, our relationships, our everyday life and even our language have been shaped over the years.