Two unfortunate friends are desperately looking for a job to survive and eventually marry their loved ones.

Two friends and co-owners of a flower shop, Eudaimon and Loulis, live by completely opposite principles. One enjoys himself and lives carefree, while the other works hard and plans for the future. When the "grasshopper" ogles his kind housewife, eyeing her olive trees, the "ant" tries to bring him to his senses. But the girl, whom the ant plans to introduce to the cicada, will ultimately enchant him.

In a small courtyard of an Athenian neighborhood, the tenants become the owner of the cunning landlady who intervenes in their lives.