The story tells the story of 50-year-old Skeva. When she learns that her son, who has barricaded himself in order to raise money to propose to his beloved Rinio, is ill, Skevo disguises himself as a man and becomes a guard in the sports (ships that were in quarantine due to cholera) in order to save him.
Captain Michalis, a fierce and indomitable warrior, has sworn to be black-clad, unshaven and unsmiling until Crete is liberated. But when he meets Emine, wife of his blood brother, Nuri Bey, he is possessed by 'a demon' that despite his efforts, he cannot get out of mind.
Follows the love of a Greek girl and an Albanian boy and the reactions around their relationship in a "typical" Greek village
