Enzo, hardly more than a boy, decides not to follow the wave of emigration,enlists and becomes a soldier like so many of his peers despite knowing that fate could bring him pain and bitterness. The war in which he finds himself and that almost no one wants and in which very few believe, however, reserves something good for him. After being one step away from the end of his short life, he meets a young and beautiful girl from Piraeus with whom he falls madly in love. He marries his Varvàra in Athens without anyone knowing.