Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made by the honest engraver in the first story, seduced by the charms of a young widow, and it subsequently passes into the hands of a beggar and a prostitute, a wealthy miser and a newly married couple where the husband is a poor artist.
A formerly heroic air force pilot, now an alcoholic loser with a failed marriage, is appointed by his older brother in the Ministry of Commerce to investigate a tragic plane crash that killed 28 people. As he goes through the motions in an alcoholic daze, he gradually comes to realize that the wreck was due to criminal negligence and failure to follow mandatory safety regulations.
An extremely ambitious neurosurgeon, devoted to his science and his child, is urgently called to operate on someone with a brain tumor. After the successful operation, the patient is kidnapped by unknown individuals with the assistance of the clinic's director. Geralis takes the matter personally and begins to investigate the case, discovering, first of all, that the patient is the president of the Hellenic Petroleum Organization, Panagiotis Argyropoulos, who has fallen victim to the relentless competition of multinationals, unwittingly becoming their tool.
