Waithood

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us. And each crisis seems final simply because it's new. - George Eliot. Athens in 2019, a part of a generation lost in no man's land, wandering outside of the classroom and the labor market amid a booming sharing economy and expanding gentrification. Five youngsters avoid waiting for an empty future by seeking entertainment in the luxurious Airbnb establishments that one of them is cleaning for a meager fee. On the rooftops they look out over a city in turmoil, daydreaming about a world of possibilities.