In Athens at the end of the 1880s, Spyros Vergoudis, a first-year philosophy student, lives in a room with a view of an enclosed courtyard shared by three housewives and the beautiful Zacharias family. As Halloween approaches, Spyros watches the festivities from his window and declines invitations to dance with the Zacharias sisters and at the neighboring laundresses' party. He harbors secret feelings for Kula and fears seeing her dance with other men. When he learns of her impending wedding to a young lieutenant, he has a strange dream and his toothache disappears after the wedding. A captivating story of unrequited love, Halloween festivities, and a mysterious dream.