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★ 4.8 · 2009 · 94m · Comedy · Drama
Vera is a beautiful former flight attendant and wife of Stelios, a president of the small-medium football team of the Big Division, "Black Panthers". She lives a quiet life, raising her two children. Everything goes smoothly, until an extramarital adventure of Stelios has a fatal end.
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