The year 1978 saw a few youngsters in northern Greece take their homemade snowboards up to one of the local ski fields, thus unknowingly setting off a series of events that popularized snowboarding in the country for years to come. Themistocles Lambridis challenges the perception of Greece as a coastal nation as he explores a vast playground of snow-covered mountains, and reveals a back-country unlike any other, from the island of Crete to Mount Olympus.