Aksinya Veter, the wife of a blacksmith, at twenty-four years old, experienced many hardships, remaining a widow with a living husband. She and her loved ones survive in a harsh world, where hunger and deprivation claim their victims, where everything is mixed - evil and good deeds, happiness and sorrow. Love, forbidden and condemned by everyone, bursts into Aksinya’s life again. What will it lead to and will Aksinya be able to atone for her sin?