Ilana travels to Santorini with her Greek boyfriend Mike for a family wedding. When he surprises her by proposing to her, she gets caught up in the whirlwind of her mother's overzealous, impetuous and as she says with a lot of feeling for her son.
That trip brings a lot of pressure to the couple. Ilana is also attending an archaeological dig and, as a teacher interested in classical mythology, she is aware of the history of Aphrodite, Psyche and Eros.
But that makes her even more susceptible. Aphrodite, the mother of Eros, puts Psyche, a mere mortal, with a series of impossible tasks to perform.
And she thinks that having a potential mother-in-law who is too focused on her wants and needs without taking into account how her children see her and that she is acting according to her cultural tradition, can lead to a bigger headache.
In any relationship there are complex human emotions and conflicts involved. But maybe Ilana still has a little more to learn from all that great classical and cultural mythological lore, something that still keeps her wrapped on the wings of Eros.
And when love called to Ilana, she followed it, though her paths were wild and craggy and Eros's wings might shatter her dreams or ravage her gardens. Instead, he would carry her, upright, through the grace of the rhythmic swells of the Aegean Sea.
That trip brings a lot of pressure to the couple. Ilana is also attending an archaeological dig and, as a teacher interested in classical mythology, she is aware of the history of Aphrodite, Psyche and Eros.
But that makes her even more susceptible. Aphrodite, the mother of Eros, puts Psyche, a mere mortal, with a series of impossible tasks to perform.
And she thinks that having a potential mother-in-law who is too focused on her wants and needs without taking into account how her children see her and that she is acting according to her cultural tradition, can lead to a bigger headache.
In any relationship there are complex human emotions and conflicts involved. But maybe Ilana still has a little more to learn from all that great classical and cultural mythological lore, something that still keeps her wrapped on the wings of Eros.
And when love called to Ilana, she followed it, though her paths were wild and craggy and Eros's wings might shatter her dreams or ravage her gardens. Instead, he would carry her, upright, through the grace of the rhythmic swells of the Aegean Sea.