A woman finds love when her uncaring husband is away in this drama from the Soviet Union with a prescient feminist twist. A beautiful woman named Praskovya (Emma Tsesarskaya) is driven by circumstance to marry a man she does not love; what's worse, the man is a violent coward who beats women. When Praskovya's new husband attempts to hurt her on their wedding night, she fights back, and when he's called away to fight in World War I not long after, she tends to their farm on her own, determined to make the best of a bad situation. Offered POWs to use as laborers, Praskovya finds herself working the fields with a handsome Austrian soldier (Karl Gurnyak). They fall in love, and Praskovya soon finds she is pregnant with his child. They remain together, happily caring for the farm and their son, until the Austrian decides to join the fight for the revolution. Eyo Put's leading lady Emma Tsesarskaya was a major star in the Soviet Union until a scandal involving her husband sent her career into a tailspin in 1937; this film enjoyed a revival as part of a retrospective on Soviet cinema at the 2000 Locarno Film Festival.