A village where grandparents convey to their grandchildren melancholy and sadness. Feodora with an f, growing up with vagabond animals. Young Eleni with her feline eyesight and canine hearing. Maximos, who tells hιs wonderful stories of lighthouse guards in exchange for erotic caresses. Their violent separation. The twin dressmakers Sia and Sia with their obsessions. Loukas, a formidable gambler, driving instructor and sex teacher. The snowed-in city of Athens. Amalitsa, a sixty-year-old orphan, and the baker “Kosmas the Aetolian”. A nurse known as “In her stead” and “Job the patient one” with his traditional weather forecasts. The has-been pop singer, always singing the same chorus. The “King of the Highway” truck driver, and the hermit with his dog named after a town. People with frustrated hopes and cancelled passions, stoic but not resigned, linked by the radio and certain nighttime programmes, in which they find an antidote to loneliness, a hope for tomorrow and the expectation of a favourable upset. Nighttime Listening is a tribute to the dream, to narrators of fantastic stories, and loves that last a lifetime.