[3][5][6] Silent Road stars Penelope Tsilika as the journalist Thaleia, Dimitris Lalos [it] as detective captain Nasos, Christos Loulis as quarry manager Vasilis, Anthi Efstratiadou as his wife Athina and Antonis Kafetzopoulos as her father and quarry owner Spyros.
In the wealthy Athens suburb of Vathi, Attica, nine primary school children are kidnapped from their mini-bus with the driver Savvas and teaching assistant Elpida.
When Alkis's parents Manto and Nikitas announce they will pay a lesser amount, kidnappers increase their ransom demand.
One student, Spyros's son Orpheus plans to use a gun to scare his bully and also threatens harm to the school community.
Kidnappers contact Thaleia, again, to direct her to a 26-year-old car accident, which was faked by Spyros to cover up the quarry death of one of his workers.
Mihalis is Iasonas's childhood friend, and a year earlier agreed to make Spyros and the Vathi community suffer.
Vasilis decides to extort money and flee; he fakes a message from the kidnappers to fool Athina into paying for Aristea's release.
Vasilis is stopped at an aerodrome, where he holds a sedated Aristea hostage in a car while he clutches a live grenade.
Σιωπηλός δρόμος [el] was produced by Nikolas Alavanos and Pathi Katsoufi for the Greek company, Filmiki Productions.
Its title references the German legend of "Pied Piper of Hamelin", who steals children after townsfolk refuse to pay his fee.