A quartet of police detectives investigating the disappearance of a drug dealer under surveillance discover in his hotel room a stone likeness of the man that is similar in style to the clothed stone statutes of thirteen missing men. A witness claims that she saw the latest victim turned into stone under the gaze of a woman in black and sunglasses, and analysis of the material determines that it possesses organic carbon which is only present in humans and animals. Meanwhile, real estate clerk Spiros and secretary Katia team up with knife-obsessed thief Percy (Thanos Amorginos) and his martial artist friend Mitsos to break into the old mansion belonging to mysterious black clad, dark glasses-wearing client Ms. Meda when they learn that she will be away from the estate for two weeks. Percy is shocked to discover that the mansion is the one he grew up in after his mother remarried (comedic actress Eleni Filini) and then mysteriously disappeared not long after. Breaking into the mansion, they discover not valuables but rooms full of clothed stone statues, men's clothes and wallets, skin masks of a woman, and a book of Greek mythology with missing pages. With nothing of value apart from loose change from the stolen wallets, the others want to go by Percy wants to await Ms. Meda's return, believing her to be the stepsister who terrified him as a child and may have been responsible for his mother's disappearance. When the village priest discovers Percy's full name and his profession as thief, he arms the younger man with the knowledge to destroy the legendary gorgon.

In this all-too-rare example of Greek horror cinema - more than a decade past the heyday of Greek soft/hardcore exploitation from the likes of Kostas Karagiannis (THE DEVIL'S MEN) and Nico Mastorakis (ISLAND OF DEATH) - director George Lazopoulos transplants the legend of Perseus and Medusa to modern day Athens with his own authorial flourishes. The parallel detective story actually adds little to the film aside from the film's twist ending, opening up what could have been a more claustrophobic story in which clues to the mysterious woman's identity could have been just as easily suggested rather than stated with the oddities discovered in the mansion by the thieves. Although it may seem odd to us foreigners that none of the film's Greek characters have ever heard of gorgons from Greek myth, the changes that Lazopoulos makes to the story serve not to throw off those familiar with the myth but also to turn Percy into his own character rather than just a modern day stand-in for its hero. Although intended as a straight-forward genre film, the end result is elegant despite its rough edges but feels not so much like an art film so much as a piece of fantastique along the lines of Harry Kumel's MALPERTUIS.