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A film-ballad about the dramatic lives of people living in a village in the Orava region during WW I, mainly the story of Eva Hlavajová, a young woman who, after her husband had to join the army, lives by herself in the times of hunger and poverty. Her hard life ends up in a tragic death which is one of the reasons for the revolt of the people against the unbearable conditions in the village. (official distributor synopsis)