In 1947, during the Civil War, a cooperative of cattle ranchers in Aspropyrgos, with a declared leftist political identity, seeks American funding through the Marshall Plan.

Evangelos Averoff, Nikos Momferatos, Adamandios Pepelasis, Andreas Papandreou, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, and Stylianos Pattakos participate, willingly or unwittingly, in the background of a story that could be the most characteristic yet also the most contradictory example of a society's desperate attempt to survive and progress.

The result of research work and archival documentation, the monograph vividly explores unknown and neglected aspects of Greek post-war political and economic life.