Set during the Greek civil war. A villager is forced to leave his house and property and go to Thessaloniki with his daughter and son. They find refuge in an old building with hundreds of other people. They live a miserable life as the daughter becomes a whore, and the son has to work.
A girl from the slums of Athens becomes a famous singer while falling in love with her songwriter.
According to an old custom in a Greek village women taking power for one day a year. But what happens when they refuse to give it up?
