A young and pretty girl, Violeta, is in love with a kind young artist, Alekos. The feelings are mutual, but the two young people have to face a severe old maid, aunt Pinelopi.

The adventures of three brothers who live lazily on their aunt's farm, waiting to inherit it.

A wealthy chief-shepherd saves from certain death a poor young herder and sparks a bitter conflict between them for the eyes of his secret sweetheart. Now, he's about to lose her forever. Are the star-crossed lovers doomed to be apart?

After leaving Nafplio, the first capital of the newly founded Greek Nation, the affluent French Duchess of Plaisance and ardent philhellene, Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, moves to Athens with her young daughter, Eliza, circa 1834.