As Pelopidas is going around hungry, trying to find something to eat, a misunderstanding makes him seem like a thief. In order to escape his persecutors, he runs trying to hide. He hitchhikes and gets a ride by a truck, whose driver happens to be his fellow villager who knows the runaway’s past. Pelopidas has been working hard since his childhood, but due to his naivety nobody is serious with him. His return to the village where was born gets him mixed up in more trouble.
Charilaos Maraziotis owns a store and owes so much money both to his lenders and to the state, that he is in danger of going to jail. He decides to pretend to be a psychopath and is sent to an asylum. His lenders, upon hearing the news about his mental health, change their attitude towards him and release him from his debts.
A wealthy man, Luke, lives happily with his wife, a refugee from the Caucasus, and their daughter. When a cousin, accompanied by a charming woman, visits them, the family man will fall into the trap and give up his wife. She will leave their daughter together, and she will become a singer. Luke, having suffered the extortion of his cousin and given him a large sum of money, will seek his wife and ask her to forgive him.