The film is based on the life of rebetiko singer Marika Ninou and gained cult status in Greece.
Success finally comes at the expense of the suicide of another female singer at the club (named Rosa), but then Yorgos is exiled for political reasons, and she and Babis leave for other venues.
She then returns to Greece to find herself supplanted by a younger singer named Matina who has caught the attention of Babis.
Marika dies of her wounds and is buried by the people she sang with as they sing in her memory at the cemetery.
There have been hypotheses that the story is based on the life of Marika Ninou with Babis playing the part of Vasilis Tsitsanis.