Un preso no cesa de cantar y silbar todo el día una canción que reza "Sólo tenemos una vida, si no la disfrutamos, para qué la vivimos", ante tan desbordada alegría, un guardia de la cárcel le pregunta cómo puede estar tan alegre estando entre rejas. Así, el preso le narra la historia de cómo llegó allí. Era un simple empleado de banco, encargado de la caja. Harto de contar los millones de los demás y ser maltratado constantemente por su jefe, decide no avisar de un error en la contabilidad, y quedarse la fortuna...
Lalakis is married with Poppe. He goes on a trip to Salonique by train, with his mistress, pretending that he has business there to attend. After his wife found out the truth about the motive of her husbands trip, finally accepts the proposition of Nikos, a man who was in love with her for a long time, and they go to a little village called Thyrassia, which has also a train station. By accident Lalakis and his mistress get down at the same station just to rest a bit but they manage somehow to lose the train. The train station manager hosts both of the couples at his house for the night and unfortunately introduces everybody..
During the Balkan Wars, Vivika Zaharouli, sick and tired of the goings-on of her womanizer husband, welcomes in Athens her godchild, who comes to live in their house. She doesn't know, however, that this is not her godchild but an impostor, Petros Harmidis, who took the other's place because he is in love with her. One day, she is visited by a classmate of hers from their old girl's school, Kiki, who is Harmidis' wife. Kiki asks her to intervene in the transfer of her husband from the front, but one misunderstanding leads to another...
