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.
Vagos is a folk singer and works at Specula's shop. His dream is a trip to Seychelles. So he decides to open his own nightclub with money borrowed from his son-in-law. But he falls victim to a theft in the contractor's office that would have closed his space. The leader of the gang is Lakis...