Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of the Greek tragedy 'Medea' (about a woman who kills her children) in her native Greece. As a publicity stunt, she arranges a meeting with an American woman (Ellen Burstyn) who is serving a prison term for killing her own children. Features Mercouri performing 'Medea' in the original, intercut with Burstyn narrating her crime.
