A wealthy chief-shepherd saves from certain death a poor young herder and sparks a bitter conflict between them for the eyes of his secret sweetheart. Now, he's about to lose her forever. Are the star-crossed lovers doomed to be apart?
After leaving Nafplio, the first capital of the newly founded Greek Nation, the affluent French Duchess of Plaisance and ardent philhellene, Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, moves to Athens with her young daughter, Eliza, circa 1834.