Fiore di Levante, Zakynthos, in 1883. A young lady of noble rank, Foteini Santri, lives a carefree life with her younger brother Mimis. The arrival of her first cousin, forty-year-old Angelos Marinis, who has come to the island on vacation, puts an end to her carefree existence and fills her with troubles and worries. Angelos falls passionately in love with her, but she doesn't respond to his feelings, since they are related. Angelos, disappointed, returns to Athens. A few months later, Foteini finds out that the Patriarch has indeed allowed marriage between first cousins, and so she writes to Mimis telling him that she loves him and asking him to come back. She is informed, however, that, in the meantime, Angelos has married another woman. Foteini, in despair, jumps off the Red Rock to her death.