A postwar melodrama of jealousy and rage.

To locate the heir of $500,000, an affluent Greek-American places an announcement in the newspaper, and hundreds of potential plutocrats start flocking to the city. Will he ever find the lucky one? Is love more important than money?

Kokovios and Kavouras become street vendors in Athens to earn a living. They are in love with Annea and Paraskeva, unaware that Paraskeva is a man who disguised himself as a woman in order to get a job as a maid. Mary is afraid to reveal her relationship with prosecutor Nikos Giannidis to her father...