Eva and Christina are two modern women, around thirty-five, inseparable friends since they were eighteen. They have studied acting, but are out of the theater, each for their own reasons. Christina lives with her 14-year-old daughter, Aliki, whom she had at a very young age from her marriage to her teacher, famous leading actor, Yannis Zervas, a marriage which, however, ended ingloriously ten years ago. She works as a waitress in an "in" bar, "Ephemeron", where the artistic world gathers, in order to be able to make ends meet. However, in her personal life she has been happy, as she lives a passionate love with her younger brother, Lambis, a student at the Drama School and her colleague at the bar. Eva, locked in the golden cage of a socially successful, but essentially unsuccessful, marriage to the great lawyer Minas Christopoulos, is busy raising the two children she had with him and her mother. Her deep desire is to return to the theater....