After losing his son in WWII, a poor cobbler has become a drunkard and laughing stock of the whole neighbourhood, besetting his wife and his daughter. When his daughter falls in love with a rich young man, he tries in vain to hide his passion from the young man's family...

In an isolated house somewhere in Cyprus, a British brigadier is murdered and the local police along with a detective and his assistant are trying to discover the culprit among the tenants of the house which are the family, a doctor and servants...