Mimis Fotopoulos plays the part of an unscrupulous and avaricious Athenian, Fanouris Karababas, who refuses his brother a share of their parents' property in order to force him to work there as a cattle-breeder. He forbids his daughter Aleka to marry her beloved and behaves cruelly to his wife Areti. Together with the family doctor, however, she persuades him that he suffers from a rare disease and is about to die.