A mother's deep love for her expatriate son, Giorgis, and her grief and sorrow for the inexplicable murder of her other son, Christakis, is vividly illustrated in the short story by Georgios Vizyinos.
The return of the expatriate somewhat relieves her pain but doesn’t alleviate her grief. She adjures, therefore, Giorgis and her other son, Michailos, to search for their brother's murderer and avenge him.
She is ignorant, of course, of who her son's murderer is and anxiously searches for him, while her Turk protégé, Kiamilis, whom she had taken care of if he were her child, after a dramatic adventure, although not knowing that he is the one who has -unwittingly- killed the son of his benefactress. A shocking revelation with dramatic consequences, when it comes to light. Kiamilis loses his senses and begs Giorgis not to tell his mother. To atone for his sin, having ultimately gone insane, he devotes himself to working for the mother, who never hears the truth.

Demet informs Nazile where she can find Kiamil. So, she goes to the area of Sheikhs to meet him. There she will reveal the truth to him. That her father married her off by force and that she never forgot about him. In turn, Kiamil will confess to her the secret that torments him. He took revenge for her brother by killing his murderer. Of course, he doesn't know whom he truly has killed. Eventually, the young couple decides to leave together the next day.

As Ahmed interrogates Charalampis, he discovers that he knows Christakis' murderer. He sends him to Constantinople with the aim of pointing him over. The cunning Charalampis has other plans. He bribes his guard, aiming to escape. And he will manage it. Therefore, Ahmed and Michailos’ efforts will eventually go to waste.

The mother and Valindé bring the gypsy woman back, trying to get her this time to point out the murderer. The gypsy, with her tricks, comes close to the terrible truth.