In 1944, four-year-old Argyris Sfountouris survived a Nazi massacre of over 200 people, including his parents, in the small Greek farming village of Distomo. As a war orphan, he was sent to the Pestalozzi Children's Village in Switzerland. He later obtained a Ph.D. in mathematics and physics at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), and made a new life for himself in exile.

Throughout his life, however, Argyris struggled with his childhood emotional trauma. Refusing to simply "come to terms" emotionally with it, Argyris chose to dedicate his life to education and political activism in an effort to prevent such things from ever happening again.

In telling his compelling story, A SONG FOR ARGYRIS blends archival footage and photos with interviews with Argyris, his sisters, contemporary residents of Distomo, the German Ambassador to Greece, and Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. The film recounts the horrific Nazi war crimes, and traces Argyris's life, from his postwar education, his literary work as translator and magazine editor, and his political activism against the 1967 military coup in Greece, to his continuing campaign for justice for the Distomo massacre victims.

A SONG FOR ARGYRIS serves not only as a reflective, emotionally moving story of one person's struggle with grief, but, by chronicling Argyris's lifelong search for peace and justice, it also becomes a broader social examination of the difficulties that nations have when confronted with issues of historical guilt.

“A thought-provoking film about memory, nationality, and war.” —Erik Loomis, Alterdestiny.blogspot.com

"Thought-provoking... proves the incredible power of documentary cinema... a powerful 105 minute documentary all of us need to see and then reflect on."—DearCinema.com