The life and adventures of Vasilis Karlovits Yougerman, a scion of a wealthy Finnish family, who has taken the path of revelry, drinking, gambling, fraud, and blackmail, and whom the Russian revolution and other events lead to our land.

In Greece, while he intends to continue his dubious activities, he is hired by a bank, becomes its senior employee, and ends up as a significant economic figure - very wealthy, powerful, yet unhappy.