The film stars Angeliki Papoulia, Vassilis Doganis, Maria Filini, Themis Bazaka, Makis Papadimitriou and Yorgos Biniaris.

Following her mother's suicide after entrapping her whole family in a huge debt, Maria, a mother of three, decides to burn the forest surrounding her father's village to get money from a construction company, abandon her loving but constantly cheating and absent husband and their three children, coming to unreconcilable clashes with her always passive father, her half-crazy sister and her fascist brother-in-law.

Bits of her rogue present are constantly interwoven with the days of her brighter, full of potential and sexually flourishing love past, creating a dazzling portrait of a woman and a country breaking into pieces.

[18] Indiewire & The Playlist's Jessica Kiang called the film a "punchy, difficult, allegorically urgent Greek tragedy, where a narrative of personal liberation becomes a political allegory of powerful pessimism", reading the main character's journey as "a series of assassinations".

[21] The film was met with mostly positive to great reviews in the countries it was released, praised for its bold directing and editing style and Angeliki Papoulia's lead performance.

[23] Süddeutsche Zeitung's F.Goettler noted that "with its passionate, impetuous and revolting hero A Blast is the Greek crisis"[24] and in Dutch Der Filmkrant Joost Booren wrote that "Syllas Tzoumerkas takes in his energetic second film emphatic distance from the 'Greek Weird Wave'.