The stories of three lonely people surviving a sweltering summertime in Athens are interwoven in this gentle romantic drama. Nikos used to be a merchant seaman, traveling around the globe to exotic places and testing his wits and his mettle in different situations. Now he is retired, living in Athens with his wife whom he no longer loves. While at the train station, he encounters a woman who faints more or less into his arms. From her, he learns that this day has already been special to her for two reasons: her husband just died, and it is her birthday. Curiously, this meeting sparks new life in him. Another man suffering through the hot Athens summer is a bank employee who gets calls every day at four p.m. from a woman who seeks to arouse him. What she succeeds in doing is rousing his curiosity, which he is likely to regret giving in to.

Three stories dealing with three men and their stance towards life, given their personal background. All stories are held in Northern Greece (Macedonia and Thrace), covering all the spectrum from urban to rural settings.

Bill Seretis is twenty years old. Uneducated... penniless... His strong legs and his talent as a soccer player are all he has going for him. With these assets he wants to conquer the soccer fields, to capture the colourful headlines of the sports papers, to have himself crowned king on Sundays. After a two year stint on dirt soccer fields, cheap hotels, "thrown" games, the loneliness of the countryside and hasty affairs with women of every sort, the dream... the major Athens team. Only as soon as he touches it the dream vanishes. The soccer establishment and the vested interests of special groups crush Bill.

A lower-class maid navigates the social world of the upper-crust family she works for.

The execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.

A young female character, Nikki Douka, from Samothraki, is sailing to the U.S. to fulfill a marriage contract and save her family honor. Her skills as a seamstress keep her busily sewing throughout the voyage to alter wedding dresses for the third-class voyagers. But along the way, she meets a young American photographer who is returning from the Middle East where he was snapping shots of the war in Smyrna, 1922. Her honesty, pride, and beauty attract the attention of the American who falls in love with her. Tribulations abound during the voyage, following the dramas of several unfortunate young women upon whom nasty characters preyed, as Nikki struggles with her feelings for the photographer.

故事发生于20世纪30年代的希腊，天真美丽的欧莎（佩内洛普·忒西莉卡 Pinelopi Tsilika 饰）爱上了英俊帅气的海军中尉斯皮罗斯（Andreas Constantinou 饰）。可是，斯皮罗斯有任务在身，即将远航，于是，两人许下了爱的约定，欧莎决定在小岛上静静等候爱人的归来。 然而，欧莎的母亲擅自决定将自己的女儿嫁给了一个名为尼克斯（Maximos Moumouris 饰）的船长，只因为后者有着雄厚的经济条件。虽然感到万分的不情愿，但母命难违，欧莎只得就范，可是内心里，她从没有忘记过对于斯皮罗斯的感情。一天，欧莎收到了一个令她崩溃的消息，自己的妹妹订婚了，而未婚夫不是别人，正是斯皮罗斯。