Mia nyhta tou Avgoustou - Season 1

August 25, 1963. Six years have passed since the murder of Anna Vandoulakis. Her husband, and her killer, Andreas, is in prison with a life sentence. No one has visited him in all these years. No one, except a new visitor who now comes to find him -unknown why. At the same time, in Piraeus, a mysterious man, with an unknown past, is doing everything to get his hands on a woman's lost earring again. It is Manolis. Andreas' cousin. And the earring once belonged to Anna. Anna, who loved Manolis and died for him.

Maria, secretly from her husband, Nikos Kyritsis, visits Andreas, her sister's murderer, in prison. Something that piques the curiosity of the chief constable, officer Dretakis, who begins to show a strange interest in her. Andreas and Maria meet for the first time after so many years, and Andreas' gratitude for the woman who visited him is immense. He begs her to come back.

Maria's meetings with Andreas continue, but a new prison inmate, Markos, makes life difficult for Andreas. Their conflict escalates dangerously day by day and becomes uncontrollable. Maria, on the other hand, is confronted with the questions of her daughter, Sophia, regarding the past that has been hidden from her.

The unexpected meeting between Manolis and Antonis revives the past and brings to the surface what the two old friends never said to each other, but also to themselves. At the same time, the death of Alexandros Vandoulakis ignites the conflict between his daughter Olga and Maria's family, but the outcome will surprise everyone.

Manolis defends Rinio and little Christina against the cruelty of the neighborhood, which brings them closer. However, Manolis is not yet ready to let someone back into his life. The only one who succeeds is Agathi, whose secret Manolis learns by mistake, as he prepares to leave once more. In the meantime, Andreas grows closer to his fellow inmate, Chronis, whom he begins to see as a father figure.

Maria and Nikos find themselves in the heartbreaking position of having to spend Christmas without their daughter, who they risk losing forever. They fight to get her back from Olga. Finally, Maria makes a decision, which is her only option to get her child back. At the same time, Agathi is preparing a revue in the hope that Stavros will finally come, while Manolis feels Rinio now very close to him and this scares him. Andreas is called upon to decide whether or not to cover up a murder...

Andreas, without even realizing it, finds himself a member of a prison gang, led by the "priest" Chronis. Andreas sees him as a father and is willingly blind to his true character. At the same time, Manolis undertakes to save Rinio and Christina from Fani's "nets", but she and Makis will not leave them alone so easily. Maria and Nikos have a rift for the first time, as Nikos has now found out about Maria's secret visits to Andrea.

Manolis decides that the moment has come to finally save Rinio from the nets of Fani and her son, who have now set their sights on destroying Agathi as well. He organizes a plan against the "flowers", without however having calculated the outcome. At the same time, and while Andreas and Maria continue their meetings, Maria is once again harassed by the chief security guard Dretakis and decides to finally tell someone the truth about him.

Kyritsis arrives in Athens and visits the leper home for the first time, where he will work for a while. What he sees in front of him surprises and shocks him, as the situation in there is much worse than he expected. However, what surprises him the most is his unexpected meeting with an old acquaintance, who he didn't think would find him there. His meeting with the "little" Dimitrakis of Spinalonga is just as surprising.

Returning to Crete, Kyritsis finds Maria dying. Once again, as then in Spinalonga, he will have to save her. But he fears that this time he might not succeed. In the meantime, Rinio expresses her love to Manolis for the first time, hoping for a positive response from him. But is Manolis ready to love a woman and change his lonely life? At the same time, Vangelis expresses his love to Katerina and suggests that they go away from Crete together.

Two years later... Manolis sees his life as empty again and begins to miss Rinio and Christina, like a lost family. However, he does not dare to look for them again, thinking that they will have forgotten him. Agathi and Iota, knowing a great secret of Rinio's, motivate Manolis to look for her, especially now, when Rinio needs him more than ever. Meanwhile, a new mysterious tenant, Amalia, arrives at Agathi's boarding house and everything points to her being connected to Stavros' past.

Manolis takes it upon himself to stand by Rinio in the last weeks of her life and begins to think about what will become of little Christina. The idea of raising her crosses his mind, but he doubts whether he is capable of taking on such a life-changing responsibility. Meanwhile, Maria holds in her hands a mysterious letter from Andreas to Manolis, with unknown contents.

The last days of Rinios make Manolis finally come face to face with his feelings and needs. He now accepts that he needs love and family. Thus, when Rinio passes away, Manolis thinks for the first time of taking on the role of father for little Christina. He ignores, however, the existence of the letter addressed to him – Andrea's mysterious letter. As soon as he gets his hands on it, everything changes.

Manolis makes the decision to return to Crete. Maria and Kyritsis, when they learn that Manolis is near them, are worried about his intentions and prepare for the big conflict. At the same time, Andreas feels the end approaching and struggles in his tired mind to find some redemption for what he did.