About the life and customs of the pre-war Lithuanian bourgeoisie in the seaside resort of Palanga.
The film tells about the life of the Lithuanian landed nobility in the period between the two wars, about the desire to live their old life. But new times dictate new conditions, new values emerge, and loyalty to old ideals is doomed...
The resourceful rural tailor Vincas offers the wealthy but tight-fisted landowner Antanas to lend his impoverished neighbor a couple of thousand rubles and in return get his daughter Agota as a wife with a large dowry. Then Vincas easily persuades Agota to steal the borrowed money from her father and flee to America together...
The fate of a young man who went to America to seek happiness, his longing for his homeland and the search for true values...
A dialogue between two historical personalities, during which a political transaction takes place and the moral face of both personalities is revealed.
This is a story about a young man striving to make a career and money, about his cunning intrigues when he throws honor, friendship and feelings under his feet, using gullible people.
A five part mini-series based on the novel by the same name.
