The plot in Katsourbos, as in the other comedies of Cretan theatre is rudimentary and treats a very common subject for that time that is the recognition of lost children. Nikolos and Kassandra are in love but the adoptive mother of the young woman, Pouselina wants to give her to old Armenis in order to inherit his money. In the end is going to be proved that Kassandra is the daughter of old Armenis, that the Turks have taken her and thus the comedy closes with the happy end of the marriage of the two young people.