The film is set in Ioannina at the beginning of the 19th century. The eldest son of Ali Pasha, Mouhtar and the beautiful Frosyni (Irene Papas) (a widow who comes from a large family and is also the ni...
Thalia, the daughter of a penny-pinching grocer, Pythagoras, is in love with Petros and refuses to marry the stupid Lakis, to whom her father has betrothed her. Lakis is the son of the nouveau-rich Mr...