Mrs. Efthalia, a woman with origin from Smyrna, is an active citizen of an Athenian neighborhood: she deals with everyone and everything, and loves to gossip.
To make his frivolous nephew see the error of his ways, a shipowner takes under his wing his bookish secretary to give her a complete makeover, bent on making him notice her. But, can the new and improved lady win the philanderer's heart?
