The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuanian farming community, where people are split between the Soviets and the "brothers in the woods", who are fighting to defend their land from the Soviets after the end of the Second World War.

casts

Donatas Banionis

Regimantas Adomaitis

Juozas Budraitis

Algimantas Masiulis

Vytautas Tomkus