Following the death of his beekeeper father, Rodakis lives a solitary life in the old family house on a Greek island. One day he is asked by the village elders to take in a young fugitive woman. He reluctantly agrees, and the woman soon persuades him to return to the family business of making honey - using a secret recipe that everyone on the island wants to get their hands on.

Exploring the themes of jealousy, incest and imprisonment, with a suspicious death and runaway criminal thrown in for good measure, Four Walls explodes the stereotypes of idyllic Greek island life.