Europe (the mythologic one) was born in the land of the Phoenicians, in the east. It was Jupiter, in love with her, who took her westward by sea, after having abducted her in the form of a bull.
So, historian and skipper Piero Tassinari - feeling the need to tell his students what Europe is-, leaves aboard of his old boat Moya together with documentary filmmaker and musician Alessandro Scillitani and writer and traveller Paolo Rumiz, and, under the suggestion of the myth, the boat Moya is symbolically turned into the bull that brings Europe.
The documentary In search of Europe tells about the three men’s sailing trip across the Mediterranean Sea, in search of the of the heart of Europe, from Beirut to Istanbul, from Rhodes to Kos, from Mykonos to Syme and from Syros to Athens, walking the fine line between legends of yesterday and fears of today, looking for origins and signes of a civilization which seems to be disintegrating.