The movie tells the adventures of a hard-working tailor Aristos Avramoglou (Kostas Tsakonas) who tries to build a house in his mother's plot in Paiania. Then he confronted Greece of 1980's: bureaucracy, governmental favors and treacherous neighbors. Therefore, he discovers that his wife has been cheating him, with the local tavern-keeper Andronikos (Tasos Kostis), who mortgaged his house, in favor of Aristos to loan from Bank for the construction expenditures.