Kęstutis Genys

Naive story about young bride who tries to decide which one of her admires: a broom or a fisherman, she should be with until it’s not too late.

A small Lithuanian town. The young engineer Algirdas Araminas completed the construction of the new bridge. On the day the opening was supposed to take place, the bridge was destroyed by German bombs. The war has begun. Algirdas is depressed, he gets down and starts drinking. However, when the Germans began to rebuild the bridge, he agrees to work.

Based on the novel by the famous Lithuanian writer A. Gudaitis-Guzevičius “The Truth of Blacksmith Ignotas” about the revolutionary events of 1918-1919. in Lithuania, about the struggle of workers for Soviet power, for the freedom of their homeland.

The film covers the events in Lithuania in 1940-1945 and tells about the life of the Lithuanian intelligentsia. The characters are placed in crisis situations, when the problem of choosing a path, the problem of social and historical self-determination of the fate of the people and each person inevitably arises.