Character Relationship Map: What If...

Characters

• Dimitris (played by Christopher Papakaliatis) — protagonist

  A filmmaker struggling with loneliness, uncertainty, unemployment, and the collapse of his directing career. He reflects deeply on love, fate, compromise, and alternate lives, develops a relationship...

• Christina (played by Marina Kalogirou) — supporting

  A woman who meets Dimitris while trying to drive her grandmother’s antique car. Her initial argument with him develops into flirtation and a relationship marked by tenderness, humor, emotional attachm...

• Elenitsa Kokovikou (played by Maro Kodou) — supporting

  She is referenced as part of an enduring romance that introduces the film’s central idea about love, fate, and the consequences of chance encounters.

• Antonakis Kokovikos (played by Giorgos Konstantinou) — supporting

  He is referenced as part of an enduring romance that introduces the film’s central idea about love, fate, and the consequences of chance encounters.

• Dimitris' Mother (played by Themis Bazaka) — supporting

  Her death is one of the hardships Dimitris is dealing with during a difficult stage of his life.

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Dimitris' Mother → Dimitris (mother)
• Elenitsa Kokovikou → Antonakis Kokovikos (Romantic Couple) — They represent an enduring romance within the film's reflection on relationships.

  The opening uses the enduring romance of Elenitsa Kokovikou and Antonakis Kokovikos as a playful reference to love and fate.

• Dimitris → Christina (Romantic Partners) — Their relationship develops from an awkward meeting into emotional attachment and love.

  Dimitris meets Christina while she is trying to drive her grandmother's antique car. Their argument becomes flirtation, they spend time together, and...

Story Analysis

The film examines how chance, fear, compromise, and companionship shape the lives people choose and the lives they imagine.

Plot Progression

1. Questions of Chance — The film introduces love and fate through the romance of Elenitsa Kokovikou and Antonakis Kokovikos. Dimitris is presented as a lonely filmmaker questioning whether ordinary choices create different l...
2. An Unexpected Attachment — Dimitris meets Christina during an awkward encounter involving her grandmother's antique car. Their argument becomes flirtation, and their growing connection combines tenderness, humor, and unease.
3. Love Under Pressure — Dimitris tells Christina that he loves her, but the film presents a contrasting domestic possibility involving a baby and exhaustion. Their mutual admissions reveal how affection can coexist with rese...
4. Loss and Disillusionment — Dimitris faces his mother's death, unemployment, and the collapse of his directing career. A New Year's confrontation exposes the dishonesty and cowardice beneath another man's apparently successful m...
5. A Film About Choices — Dimitris proposes a low-budget documentary about love, loneliness, aging, companionship, and wished-for lives. The decision to pursue the project leaves his future unresolved but hopeful.