In the old Trikala prison where the Tsitsanis Museum is now housed, the “Greek Butterfly” Costas Samaras returns to where he was held for a riveting interview. Now, having left his illegal life behind, he works as a photojournalist, carrying a route that looks like something out of a film script.

The new “THEMA Uncut” finds him crossing the threshold of prison again, this time not as a prisoner, but as the narrator of a life spent in illegality and marked by successive escapes In a confession without filters to Frisos Drakodidis, Samaras unfolds his journey in the world of illegality, shedding light on unknown aspects of his actions and the relationships that marked him.

A separate chapter is his connection with the Paleokosta brothers, with him describing their collaboration and revealing details of the robbery at the National Bank of Kalambaka in June 1992, which netted them 125 million drachmas, a robbery that left an indelible mark.

Of particular interest is what he says about Vassilis Paleokosta, who remains wanted with a million euro bounty, and Nikos Paleokosta, who recently passed away, outlining the relationship between them behind the headlines.

The “Greek Butterfly” also talks about the toughest criminals he met in prison, revealing who he considered the most dangerous and why, while describing in detail the methodology they used in their robberies. Finally, he does not hesitate to distinguish which escape was the easiest and which the most difficult of his life, events that established him as one of the country’s best-known escapees.