A conscientious night watchman, Xenophon, at the risk of his life, saves the secret books of a factory during a fire. The bosses are trying to get them, in every way, each of them separately, because the books show on the one hand that one stole the other and on the other hand they had extramarital relations. So the night watchman gets involved in endless tragicomic situations ...

Shadow puppetry is not only part of the heritage of East Asia; Greece had its own traditional form of this popular art. In this leisurely drama, set in 1950s Athens, Antonis Barkis (Kostas Kasakos) is the master puppeteer for a traditional shadow show. However, although he is still making a living, it is clear that other forms of popular entertainment will soon supplant this one. This does not improve Antonis' temper, and his assistant's desires to modernize their entertainments only make it worse.

A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.