Jenny Petromichali is a widow who has just turned forty, but everyone keeps telling her that she is "forty and...". A flirtatious young woman, she falls in love with a charming but poor violinist and comes face to face with her brothers, who want to marry her off to the elderly George Hatzithomas, a rich but deaf shipowner. Jenny's love affair is a scandal for the morals of the time and her social class...