Summary The heroic people of Souli have managed to repulse Ali Pasha’s troops, and brave Malamos Drakos sends his mother to ask for Maro’s hand in marriage. Maro is the niece of the woman captain Tzavela. The latter overlooks the hatred that has kept the two families apart for many years and decides to let Malamos Drakos marry her niece. However, she is not aware of the fact that Maro is in love with Kitsos Botsaris. When her son Fotis Tzavelas arranges Maro’s marriage to Kitsos, Malamos suppresses his pain by mounting an attack against the Turks, who are trying to take over Souli again. After beating Mouslin Gioleka the Turk, he is shot in the back and a little later dies. Souli is then taken over for the first time because Pilios Gousis has betrayed them. The women from Souli jump dancing off the cliffs of Zallongo with their babies rather than give in to the Turkish-Albanians. The men were massacred, and Samouil the monk blows up Kougki, leading everyone’s death.