Plot
In 1827 at an inn in Nafplio the capital of the newly established Greek state a group of people from different parts of Greece are celebrating the defeat of the Turkish fleet in Navarino However in their patriotic fervor they drink too much and a hottempered Arvanite not understanding the dialect of a Cretan and thinking he has insulted him injures him with a pistol Police Inspector Dionysios Fantes from the Ionian Islands arrives at the scene to interrogate the witnesses but he too cant understand their various dialects as they cant understand his