In a mountainous Greek village, two brothers passionately fall in love with the same woman. Their great love for them makes them unrelenting rivals, with the consequent tragic conflict between them and their extinction.

Accused of stabbing his nightclub singer mistress to death, unscrupulous dockhand Christos is on the run. But he swears he's innocent. Could the harbour bum be telling the truth?

Petros Pelekis is shaken when he receives a letter from America informing him that the feud between his family and the Patakas family continues, and that the last Patakas is coming to Greece to kill him. Petros lives in constant fear that anyone he knows could be his would-be killer. To protect himself, he hires Kostas, his neighbor's wife's lover.

An industrialist has decided to marry his daughter with his partner and, for that reason, will try to help him in whatever way he can.