1881 in the Greek town of Gytheon. The men of a ruling family of the place have hurry together for a meeting. They stand with a serious expression in a circle around a hat in which each of them gives gourmet powder and a lead ball. Tense, look at the headgear. Now a ball is removed from the hat again. It determines who has to enforce the blood revenge. The selected person will later commit a murder in the name of the family theory, so it wants the order on the Mani peninsula.