Summary We are in early 1967. Kostas is a law-abiding citizen, a quite man living with his mother, his sister Kaiti and his younger brother, Giorgos, who is a student. He works day and night at his kiosk, living to his bone the everyday reality and troubles of the period. He is in love with Eleni and wants to marry her, but he has to wait until Kaiti is married to Leonidas, her extremely conservative fiancé. April’s military coup forces Kostas to take the side of the winners, hanging, each time, the picture of their most powerful leader, while Giorgos joins a resistance group that sets up bombs. Giorgos’ action puts Kostas in big trouble and makes him resort to one of his customers, colonel Chatzimaneas. Kostas is injured during the outbreak of the Polytechnic School, but after the re-establishment of the Democracy in Greece, he finally marries Eleni and his troubles come to an end.