The heroic Souliotes have managed to repel the attack of Ali Pasha, and the brave Malamos Drakos sends his mother to ask for the hand of Maro, the niece of Captain Tzavelaina. She overlooks the hatred that separated the two families for years and agrees to give him her niece, without knowing that Maro loves Kitsos Mpotsaris. When Tzavellas' son becomes engaged to Maro with Kitsos, Malamos drowns his sorrow and unleashes his anger against the Turks, who are once again trying to take Souli. The Souliot women, in order not to fall into the hands of the Turco-Albanian people, throw themselves off the cliff of Zalongos...