[3] Fragments of roughly 750 lines, accounting for about half of the play, were found in 1907, alongside Perikeiromene and Samia in the Cairo Codex.

Two parties want the court to decide who should take ownership of goods found alongside an abandoned baby.

The play gradually reveals the baby's history, and the identity of its parents, in the process of a complex exploration of marriage and family.

[10][2] Pamphile, a young Athenian woman, gives birth to a child only five months after her wedding to her husband Charisios.

After hearing both sides, Smikrines rules in favor of Syros, declaring that the jewels belong to the baby, as the child might come from a noble background, so they are essential to its identity.

Furious that Chairos is wasting Pamphile's dowry, her father, Smikrines, demands she divorce Charisios.