Sotiros incorporates narrative film devices such as intertitle cards into a metaphorical dialogue between two male lovers, revealed largely through the luminous depiction of everyday objects in their shared world. A color palette of pastels and golden hues and the strains of Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck enrich the film’s emotional character. Robert Beavers wrote of Efpsychi: “The details of the young actor’s face—his eyes, eyebrows, earlobe, chin, etc.—are set opposite the old buildings in the market quarter of Athens. . . . He speaks a single word, teleftea, meaning the last (one).” In Wingseed, Beavers draws comparisons between the pastoral beauty of a Greek hillside and that of the male form.