Algirdas Paulavicius

A young woman agrees to model for an artist as the Virgin Mary. His strange influence triggers her repressed sexual urges, causing her to have delusions and nightmares about spiders and other grotesque imagery.

It is the post-war era on the Latvian border, and the Lithuanian girl Maryte has located her relative, Antanas. Having been a farmhand on a rich farm as well as the lover of the owner's wife, upon his return from the war Antanas hopes to gain as much as he can from the collapse of the old world. The wife's daughter, Ausma, has since grown up and seems much more desirable to Antanas than his former lover. The historical situation makes for a tense atmosphere, because in the nighttime partisans may emerge from the forest, while during the daytime everyone must be careful to follow the new rules of life under Soviet rule.

In the Lithuanian village of Lietuvos, a farmer brings his sheltered nephew, Joni, to the rich Bani. By biting the prospective host's hand, the teenager gains the nickname of "the devil's seed."

Two POWs - Russian and Lithuanian - are trying to escape a German Camp during WWII.

Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas attempt to flight over Atlantic ocean.

The events take place in a fictional South Africa, where a group of neo-fascists conduct secret experiments on people, using psychological weapons.

Tragic pages in the history of the formation of the independent Lithuanian state in 1918-20.