Ancestral Land

A woman goes into labor and her husband is not able to leave work; she gives birth to a baby boy; before the husband arrives, she take a young baby girl under her wing after the baby's mother died during labor.

The youngest son starts being able to walk again, however, becomes bullied leading him to fight another boy; Alenka learns some heartbreaking news, leading her to do something crazy.

Alenka continues to pursue acting; with Alesha's wedding coming up, she learns she must head back to the village; Alesha takes in a young boy and helps his family; Stepka gets in a brutal fight with the man that Varvara is seeing.

Alenka is met with heartbreak again by the same man of when she was young; on her way home she catches Varvara and Stepka.

Stepka falls in with an unsavory group of robbers; drama unfolds surrounding the play that Alenka wants to be cast in.

Vavara is beaten by her new husband; he sends her to the city to sell meat, where Stepka spots her; they have an emotional reunion, where Varvara tells him how they are really not blood related.