While Greece is under German occupation, a group of soldiers starts from Cairo and arrives in Athens to organize the blasting of the bridge at Gorgopotamos.

During the German Occupation, two brothers, Takis and Christos, fight the invaders with great ferocity. Both of them belong to resistance groups – different ones. After the withdrawal of the Germans, the two brothers find themselves in rival camps. One is a captain of ELAS (Greek People’s Liberation Army) and the other one a captain in the Greek army. In the attempt by ELAS to seize the Makrygiannis Gendarmerie Regiment, one of the brothers is killed. A little before the Civil War breaks out, the other brother is transferred to Florina. There, the heroes will experience the tragic events of the Civil War, until the complete collapse of the partisans on the ridges of Mt. Grammos.

A somewhat cowardly man remains unmarried, while his own people desperately try to find him a bride.

Sousourada is the spoiled daughter of Nikolakis, a wealthy man. She is consistently mischievous and is always upsetting her family. A poor young man falls in love with her and decides to do anything he can to tame and marry her.

During the years of the German Occupation, Dimitris Korres, commander of a police station, is considered a collaborator of the occupiers but everyone, even his daughter Maria, is wrong as he, code-named "OP 34", is one of the leading members of the Resistance. From his post he helps Greek patriots and saves the lives of prisoners, such as Lieutenant Avgeris, whose plane was shot down in Greek airspace. Avgeris is in love with Maria, who tries to help him flee to the Middle East, but they are captured by the Germans. Avgeris, in order not to be harmed, agrees to cooperate with them.

Charis is a district attorney, and his wife Liana is a dancer in a night club. Liana finds out that her husband has cancer, but she hides it from him for obvious reasons. An old friend of her husband, Ntora, who was in love with him and in whose house the couple lives, accuses Liana of infidelity, presenting as evidence a photo of her with the doctor. Charis sends her away without a second thought. In a car accident, however, Liana, seizes the opportunity to switch identities with that of the deceased woman and so completely disappears from Charis' life in order to survive on her own. In the end, of course, the truth is revealed, and the couple get back together. However, with everything that has happened in the interim, their relationship has suffered severe damage.

Dimitris Dalikis was the owner of a bank abroad. However, he went bankrupt and returned to Greece with only a few securities left. With the stock market crash, he lost those too, leaving him literally "broke." He was on the verge of suicide when he met Anna, a widow with a young son, Stefanos. One day, Dimitris, in order to save little Stefanos from certain death in a building, injured his hands and was left paralyzed. Misfortune befell their home, and Anna decided to give the child up for adoption. Years passed and Stefanos became a prosecutor. His relationship with Rania, his fiancée, was sealed with their marriage, with Stefanos' mother watching from a distance.