Summary As Pelopidas is going around hungry, trying to find something to eat, a misunderstanding makes him seem like a thief. In order to escape his persecutors, he hides inside tricycle vehicle full of fruit, but he is caught red-handed and then fights with the vehicle’s owner, for having eaten the fruit. He runs again. He hitchhikes and gets a ride by a truck, whose driver happens to be his fellow villager who knows the runaway’s past. Pelopidas has been working hard since his childhood, but due to his naivety nobody is serious with him; he has even lost Marina, his uncle Theodosis’ adopted daughter, who was in love with him. His return to the village gets him mixed up in more trouble, that even makes him want to kill himself. However, this time, the misunderstandings are happily resolved as he finally wins Marina back.