This films tells four different stories, all connected by the banks of a river.

A married woman struggles to escape the decay of her failed marriage. She meets a strange young man with whom she falls deeply in love and with whom she lives the great illusion, the dream she longed for. She experiences intense dizziness and feels unprecedented joy. But the young man is "crazy," mentally disturbed, and epileptic. When his pigeons, for which he has an irrational and pathological love, die en masse from an unknown cause, he completely loses his mind and kills his lover, believing that he is offering her ultimate freedom.

Sotiris, the president of Ano Latini, goes to Athens to get information about the project of expropriation for the construction of a military airport in the village. Dimitroula, president's daughter, is in love with Vangelis, an aircraftsman, who serves his duty in Athens. When Vangelis learns that a wealthy villager asked to marry his girlfriend, he goes to the village with his friend Kanellos, to find out what's happening. Kanellos is a naive hotel concierge who wears a fancy uniform, making everyone in the village believe that he is a Wing Commander.

Α crook turns a cabaret girl into a fine lady to use her as bait for his victims.

A young journalist, Alexis, witnesses a political crime and is pursued by the killers. He then meets an unhappy girl, Marie, who has nowhere to sleep, and takes her home. He offers her support and treats her tenderly, but when he realizes that they are not compatible, he abandons her. The desperate young woman ends her life.

Thessaloniki industrialist Vranas plans to marry his son Alexis to Anna, the daughter of an Athenian industrialist. Alexis reacts to his father's plan and asks his chauffeur Nontas to impersonate his boss at the meeting with his bride. However, Anna does the same with her maid Maria. In the end, Nontas falls in love with Maria and Alexis with Anna, and the two couples get married.