English professor Dimitris (Kostas Messaris) has a brief affair with Varvara (Eleni Stavros), daughter of a wealthy family, whom he tutors in order for her to marry an English businessman. His disappointment and lost dreams make him blame his employers for his personal failure, but his need makes him accept their offers. In his dreams he identifies them with the Germans during the Occupation. Besides his love affair with Varvara, which stops abruptly after the Englishman arrives, the professor succumbs to an affair with her mother (Theano Ioannidou).