Two best friends, Heracles and Agisilaos start for Naxos, as they expects Heracles's heavily sick goddess to die. There comes a Greek girl from Germany to visit her country for the first time. Finally, they realize that somehow they already know each other...
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), a bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.
