It is the third film in a row of the type that much later on was called "fustanella (Greek kilt)", following Gkolfo by Bachatoris (1914) and Astero by Gaziadis (1929). It is based on the successful theatrical play (rhyming pastoral romance) by Dimitrios Koromilas, who draws his inspiration from a poem by Giannis Zalokostas "I fell in love with a shepherdess". The setting is Greece, a rural country in the middle of the 19th century. A landlord, Mitros, gives Kroustallo a golden cross as a gift to show her his tender feelings. He doesn't know, however, that she is already in love with Liakos, a destitute young shepherd to whom Mitros owes his life - in the past he had saved him from drowning in the river. The cross around the neck of the shepherdess causes fights between the two men, while Mitros asks Kroustallo's hand from her mother, Mrs. Stathaina, who had been his childhood love.

Stella, daughter of a banker from Zakynthos, loves a poor telegraph operator. Her father wants her to marry a rich man, but Stella refuses and her father locks her in the attic, where she lives in isolation. When she learns that the telegraph operator only wanted her fortune, that he did not truly love her, and that he is marrying the daughter of a nobleman, Stella Violanti collapses mentally and physically, and her death is inevitable.