And Princess Velya, the youngest daughter of Prince Veleslav, did not think, did not guess, that long ago she had been betrothed through her father’s carelessness to distant lands, into a cursed family. And she will have to leave to meet an unknown fate, through dense forests to a foreign land, to the city of Kariyar, to become the wife of one of the four princes there. And they all seem to be good, and not better than the stranger to whom she had already given her heart on the dark Kupala night. And is it true that true love is stronger than any adversity?..