The crook Makis and his fiancée Dola, take on the newly rich businessman Antonis Kartelis, in order to get money from him. The businessman's wife wants to enter good society and be in the in-crowd. But Kartelis, a streetwise and cunning man, understands everything. With the help of his down-to-earth daughter, Mary, and his young employee Angelos, with whom the girl is in love, he puts the rascals in their place.